[pianotech] Fw: strings breaking/ Nordheimer / Mossaman

[Carl Teplitski]

Thank you very much.  Sure answered  my question, and   helps me make a 
decision.
The dealer, who I have a good relationship with, is a good fellow, and I'm 
sure tried
to satisfy this client, but finally had to give up, or I suppose give him 
the store. I didn't
contact him about this event, but some day will mention it in passing.

Thanks again.

Carl / Winnipeg


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Nossaman" <rnossaman at cox.net>
To: <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 9:45 PM
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Fw: strings breaking/ Nordheimer


> On 11/18/2010 9:06 PM, Carl Teplitski wrote:
>
>> Sounds like you may have the answer I was looking for, and it's the
>> manner of play that's causing the
>> breakeage. Changing to different strings would likely produce a
>> different tone than the originals.
>
> As least for a while, until those are broken too. In the 80's I saw a 
> 4'-something high school vocal music teacher utterly destroy a new Baldwin 
> studio in under a year and a half. We went through three full sets of bass 
> strings, the last a "heavy duty" set supplied by Baldwin, and hands full 
> of individual replacements. She stood at the piano, since she couldn't see 
> over it sitting, and her full straight arm weight went into playing loud 
> enough to be heard over (drown out?) the choir. I'd told her at the first 
> string break that she needed a grand, and a big one, but that wasn't about 
> to happen. The piano finally came back to the store worn out, patched up, 
> and utterly worthless for resale as used. I'm not sure what they did with 
> it, but it sure deserved better.
>
> I wish you luck, as it's unlikely to be any fun.
> Ron N