Harpsichord string breakage

Avery Todd atodd@UH.EDU
Wed Nov 22 11:53 MST 2000


John,

>	Harpsichord tone is best when the string is very close to breaking
>point.  If you see a pattern of breakage (I always put a piano front rail
>paper punching at the base of the harpsichord tuning pin of a replaced
>string with the date of replacement penciled on it) you might want to get
>in touch with Martin about possibly changing the string size in that area.
>	Good luck.
>John Chapman RPT
>Wake Forest University
>Winston-Salem NC

   I really don't think that is the problem. The lowest broken 4' string
is the first of that string size. Then after the next two broken ones,
going up, there are still another 14 notes of the same size above it.

Avery


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