[pianotech] String Breakage

[Terry Farrell]

I had a 1900 Everett grand with the original strings in my shop a few  
years ago for restringing and just for the yahoo of it my son and I  
decided to see just how far above pitch you could pull a string before  
it broke. We did maybe a dozen or so and pretty regularly we would  
pull them about 300 cents sharp before they broke. That surprised me a  
bit.

Terry Farrell

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Kurta <mkurta1 at comcast.net>
> To: toddpianoworks at att.net; pianotech at ptg.org
> Sent: Tue, Mar 2, 2010 7:57 am
> Subject: Re: [pianotech] String Breakage
>
> SNIP
>   We had a chapter meeting once where we took a junk piano and  
> everyone took a turn at purposely trying to break the strings. We  
> each brought our tuning wrench and took turns cranking tighter and  
> tighter until the strings broke.  It was amazing! Most pins turned  
> 1/2 a turn or more before the string let go.
>   Again, there is no rhyme or reason......
>
>   Mike Kurta, RPT
>   Chicago chapter

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