This thread is very interesting to me, even though I don't have any such heavy-handed clients. It just occurred to me after reading all the tried-and-failed solutions, has anyone tried floating the pitch southward? Like maybe A-435? Seems like these churches sometimes have guitars and drums... not sure about trumpets or other less-flexible-pitch wind instruments. Or would this likely have the same non-effect of lower-break-percentage stringing? Paul Bruesch Stillwater, MN On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Paul McCloud <pmc033 at earthlink.net> wrote: > We have a very large Baptist church that I used to tune for. They had > purchased a new Baldwin L piano because they were breaking strings. Every > time I went there, I had to replace at least two strings. They couldn't > understand why this was happening, so I wrote a report on why it is common > in churches for strings to break. I never heard from them again. The music > program at that church has some very heavy handed players and they have > other players that use the piano during services. The directors always > blame the piano or the tuner for breaking strings. We had a "tooner" who > used to put oil on the strings, bridges, all bearing points, deregulate the > pianos, and add leads to the back ends of the keysticks to try to stop > players from breaking strings. He ruined a lot of pianos trying to make > sure strings didn't break. Never mind the piano, at least they didn't break > strings after he worked on them. > > Paul McCloud > > San Diego > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20101109/07c7f7b9/attachment.htm>
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