Important distinction you've made there, Ed. I had a piano I had just strung start shedding strings throughout the scale at the bottom of the coil. After much head scratching, our best guess is that the "bit" of our impact coil lifter was the culprit. Who woulda thunk it?? ? Alan Eder? ? -----Original Message-----? From: A440A at aol.com? To: caut at ptg.org? Sent: Tue, Nov 13 5:49 PM? Subject: Re: [CAUT] breaking strings? ? >? ? Um, at the becket? Or, at the coil. It is really rare for a string to? break at the becket, unless it has been taken off and put back on while flexing? the becket. If it is breaking at the bottom of the coil, then it has either? been tuned a lot or there is excessive friction between the pin and the speaking? length, necessitating abnormally high tensions just to render the strings.? ? So, were these strings breaking at the bend where it enters the pin?? confused,? Ed Foote? ? ? **************************************? See what's new at http://www.aol.com? ? ________________________________________________________________________? Email and AIM finally together. You've gotta check out free AOL Mail! - http://mail.aol.com? ________________________________________________________________________ Email and AIM finally together. You've gotta check out free AOL Mail! - http://mail.aol.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/20071113/0079777c/attachment.html
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