And as we know very well, all piano plates were meticulously engineered by qualified engineers! ;-) Terry Farrell On Nov 18, 2010, at 7:46 PM, Roger at Integra.com wrote: > Rick, > When I attended the Yamaha Red School house for training we were > visited by the casting engineer from the Yamaha factory. He was > asked how much tension could you apply to all the strings before the > plate would break. He responded with a puzzled look and said " All > the strings would break before the plate". His puzzlement stemmed > from an engineers perspective of design to that of the layman. No > engineer would design a product that would fail within the margins > presented in your situation. > Roger Gable > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Ucci" <richarducci at comcast.net > > > To: <pianotech at ptg.org> > Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 9:32 AM > Subject: [pianotech] Liter box / piano > > >> List, >> These string have started popping, all need replacing. I'm planning >> on >> replacing under string felt and tuning pins. I'm thinking agraffes >> too. >> Only the tenor section is damaged, can the tension be lowered on just >> that section without risking cracking the plate? >> >> > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >> >> >> >> Rick Ucci/ Ucci Piano >> www.uccipiano.com >> >
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