<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Karen,</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Do you know if the capo bar was reshaped
before restringing? It could either be too flat or too sharp or too
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Paul</font>
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<p><font size=1 face="sans-serif">11/13/2007 03:41 AM</font>
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<br><tt><font size=2>I have a customer with a Doll and Sons small grand
piano. It was<br>
recently restrung using the original string gauges and pattern. The<br>
upper treble is very sensitive to tuning and strings have broken<br>
during two of the last four tunings at intervals of six months. I<br>
went to tune it again and another string had broken since my last<br>
tuning. Any ideas? Can I change the string size and get more<br>
elasticity out of the strings?<br>
Thanks for your input.<br>
Karen<br>
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