[CAUT] breaking strings

[John Ross]

That sounds like a bad batch of wire.
I remember someone sending me a sample of some wire he had purchased, and it 
broke, by bending it for the becket hole.
John M. Ross
Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada
jrpiano at win.eastlink.ca
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Karen Lindsley" <36keys at gmail.com>
To: "College and University Technicians" <caut at ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 10:41 AM
Subject: Re: [CAUT] breaking strings


> The v-bar was not shaped before restringing.  The breakage occurs at
> the becket, and usually in the upper 5th and the 6th octaves.  The
> angles from the v-bar to the tuning pin seem rather severe to me, but
> more so in the bass where there isn't a problem.
>
> On Nov 13, 2007 5:32 AM, Jim Busby <jim_busby at byu.edu> wrote:
>> Hi Karen,
>>
>> Sometimes (most?) the "original scale" is simply wrong. Also, where does 
>> the string break? (At the becket, hitch, other?) This may give another 
>> clue. Is any angle too acute?
>>
>> Jim Busby BYU
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of 
>> Karen Lindsley
>> Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 11:34 PM
>> To: College and University Technicians
>> Subject: [CAUT] breaking strings
>>
>> I have a customer with a Doll and Sons small grand piano.  It was
>> recently restrung using the original string gauges and pattern.  The
>> upper treble is very sensitive to tuning and strings have broken
>> during two of the last four tunings at intervals of six months.  I
>> went to tune it again and another string had broken since my last
>> tuning.  Any ideas?  Can I change the string size and get more
>> elasticity out of the strings?
>> Thanks for your input.
>> Karen
>>
>>
>