I agree with David. We are piano technicians, not piano teachers, (unless you happen to do both). All we can tell them is why strings break. It's up to them what they do with that information. Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT Piano Tuner/Technician Mililani, Oahu, HI 808-349-2943 Author of: The Business of Piano Tuning available from Potter Press www.pianotuning.com -----Original Message----- From: Porritt, David <dporritt at mail.smu.edu> To: Pianotech List <pianotech at ptg.org> Sent: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 10:13 am Subject: RE: Pianist breaking many strings Stephane: While I agree with your premise, I don't think there's much chance of success on this. When piano technicians try to teach piano technique to professional players, they tend to resent it. They think of themselves as the professionals and we are the repair people. In the 22 years I've been at my current place, we've had two chronic string breakers - several strings a week. Other players have broken the occasional string but these two were way ahead of the pack. The thing they had in common was the fact that they both were angry young men. Their playing sounded angry because they were. dp David M. Porritt, RPT dporritt at smu.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20081001/373befec/attachment.html
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