[CAUT] breaking bass strings at the bridge?

[Ed Sutton]

It indicates abuse of the piano.

How big is the church?

Do the singers have microphones and amplification?

The piano has a short back scale and is probably scaled close to breaking 
tension to keep the inharmonicity low with relatively heavy windings on the 
foreshorted strings.  Bang it hard enough to get the bass bridge moving up 
and down and you are work hardening the back scale at the pins as the wave 
snaps back and forth.

Ed Sutton


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Minor" <jminor at uiuc.edu>
To: "caut" <caut at ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2008 9:47 PM
Subject: [CAUT] breaking bass strings at the bridge?


> When bass strings are popping at the hitch pin and tail "waste" area and 
> near bridge, does this indicate anything in particular based on your 
> experience? This is in an Assembly of God church and almost every string 
> has broken more than once on a Yamaha C-1.
>
> John Minor
> University of Illinois