<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Re: [CAUT] Yarmulka u1 bass strings constantly breaking</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> Hey, Ben, We have 27 U1s & DU1s here, purchased from 1991 through last year.  No problems with string breakage, bass, tenor, or treble. If I were going to have a piano rescaled, though, I would talk to James Arledge and no one else. Regards, Ken Z. On 5/18/08 7:18 PM, "Ben Treuhaft" <blt@igc.org> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE>dear Collegiate and Universitarianistic tuners, here at New York University we have about 50 newish u1s, none over 10 yrs old and most younger than 5. They break bass stgs. Yamaha claims that happens with every other make of upright in a music school setting. I do not believe them. Most of our u1s have over 1/2 dozen missing or replaced bass strings (treble never break). Questions: 1) has anyone else come across this problem on U1s? Is it truly a universal university problem for other makes e.g. Steinway K? 2) is there a fix, e.g. get Mapes to produce a set of lower-tension strings, and replace them all? What would one say to Mapes? thanks, Ben or failing all that, how about a recommendation of an affordable upright that doesn’t break all the bass strings Benjamin Treuhaft .·´&hibar;`·.¸¸.><(((((º> Underwater Piano Shop 39 E. 7th St. #3 New York, NY 10003 (212) 505-3173 BLT@igc.org </BLOCKQUOTE> -- Ken Zahringer, RPT University of Missouri School of Music </BODY> </HTML>