What is "stock Yamaha wire"? David Ilvedson, RPT Pacifica, CA 94044 ----- Original message ---------------------------------------- From: A440A at aol.com To: caut at ptg.org Received: 11/20/2006 2:19:30 PM Subject: Re: [CAUT] breaking strings, Kawai KG-2A (1997) >Dave writes: ><< After 3 - 4 years they just get that way. After restringing the capo >sections they calm down for a while and then in a few years it's time to >do the whole piano. Kawai's might be more prone to that than some, but >our practice room pianos now are all Steinways and they do the same >thing. It really is string fatigue. They pretty much all break at the >capo bar. >> > I will ditto that for the Yamahas we have at Vanderbilt. after three >years, I am replacing, on average, two-three strings per week among the 7 C-2's in >the practise rooms. The softly voiced pianos break them as commonly as the >harsh ones. > The Steinway's are no exception, I had three strings break on a pair of >L's that were no more than 6 months old. Oddly enough, two of these strings >broke at the bridge, which is something I have seen only once before in 30 >years. > Carbon steel has a finite number of times it will allow its plastic >deformation limit to be exceeded. A steady stream of testosterone-poisoned Liszt >wa >nnabes is hard on the pianos, but good on job security. I do think that the >Mapes Gold series of wire is more durable than the stock Yamaha wire. I know >that the Yamaha bass strings will break right at the coil if the string lifter >flexes them more than once. > I say, "let'em break, that is what I am there for." > >Ed Foote RPT >http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html >www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html >
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