No, I only occasionally ride on those, don't tune on 'em. ; ) It was a Spirit Filled Church in Slidell... -----Original Message----- From: caut-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org]On Behalf Of Ed Sutton Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 8:10 AM To: College and University Technicians Subject: Re: String breakage Lance- By any chance was that piano on a riverboat? Ed S. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lance Lafargue" <lancelafargue@bellsouth.net> To: "'College and University Technicians'" <caut@ptg.org> Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 8:57 AM Subject: RE: String breakage > This P-202 was within the last 5 years. It may be called a P-22 now (45"). > They were really banging on it. > > -----Original Message----- > From: caut-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org]On Behalf Of > Susan Kline > Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 8:33 PM > To: College and University Technicians > Subject: RE: String breakage > > > Yes, those early P202's did have troubles in the bass. Remember, it > was just after they took over the Everett factory. After breaking > two bass strings while tuning three very lightly used P202's at a > school, I looked, and saw that the string approached the coil at a > bad angle, so that it was trying to ride up where the coil first > started, especially for the lowest row of pins. > > This was before they sent out rescaled strings, but they certainly > got my attention by sending me a complete set of bass strings, gratis. > Superb > service -- if only the design had been as good as the service reps! > > It all seemed so needless -- if they could just have drilled the > tuning pin holes so the pins leaned back at an angle, I doubt that > they would have broken any wire to speak of. > > Susan > > At 11:07 AM 2/25/2003 -0500, you wrote: > >Lance wrote: > > >Susan, my biggest string breaker was Macedonia Baptist Church with a > Yamaha > > >P-202 also. Yamaha/dealer paid me to replace the bass strings with > rescaled > > >strings with heavier core wire. They haven't broken any since. > > > >Susan, Lance, > >My biggest string breaker was also a Yamaha P202. Similar Baptist Church > >setting. > > > >Yamaha told me to use the different scale bass strings as well, and sent > >them to me. Apparently, they keep records of frequency of string breakage > >for each string for each model. The service rep could tell me which bass > >strings had the highest occurrence of breakage. > >Jeff > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >caut list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives > > _______________________________________________ > caut list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives > > _______________________________________________ > caut list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives > _______________________________________________ caut list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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