<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; = charset=us-ascii"> <TITLE>Message</TITLE> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1226" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><SPAN class=631583516-17092003><FONT color=#000080>List,</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=631583516-17092003><FONT color=#000080></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=631583516-17092003><FONT color=#000080>I have found = over time that on any heavily played piano, the best solution is to keep the = hammers shaped.  I know this is hard to schedule, but it is the only answer.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=631583516-17092003><FONT color=#000080></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=631583516-17092003><FONT color=#000080>I didn't = catch the original post as to what model this was.  In some Kawai models I do = like to change all of the wire in the affected area with Roslau blue or Mapes international gold.  This combined with well shaped hammers usually = cuts way back on the string breakage, at least until the hammers begin = to get flat again.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=631583516-17092003><FONT color=#000080></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=631583516-17092003><FONT color=#000080>Don Mannino RPT</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=631583516-17092003><FONT color=#000080></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=631583516-17092003><FONT color=#000080></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=631583516-17092003><FONT color=#000080></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV></DIV> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr = align=left><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Alan = McCoy [mailto:amccoy@mail.ewu.edu] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, September 17, = 2003 8:54 AM<BR><B>To:</B> dm.porritt@verizon.net; College and University Technicians<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: Practice room = grands<BR><BR></FONT></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=661285215-17092003><FONT face=Garamond color=#800000>Dave,</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=661285215-17092003><FONT face=Garamond color=#800000></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=661285215-17092003><FONT face=Garamond = color=#800000>Wow. That is a lot of broken strings! Are those hammers rock hard or have = you spent time softening them? How the heck do you get anything else done around = there after replacing all the strings?</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=661285215-17092003><FONT face=Garamond color=#800000></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=661285215-17092003><FONT face=Garamond = color=#800000>Alan McCoy</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #800000 2px = solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT = face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> = caut-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org]<B>On Behalf Of </B>David M. Porritt<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, September 17, 2003 7:58 = AM<BR><B>To:</B> caut@ptg.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: Practice room grands<BR><BR></FONT></DIV> <P align=left><FONT size=3>Wow!  Since Kawai's are pretty = high tension scales, I can't imagine how many strings get broken with that kind = of use!  Mind you, I like Kawais, but that combination of piano = and use!  </FONT></P> <P align=left>9 of our 10 piano major practice rooms have Steinway = "L"s or "M"s.  The other one is an older Baldwin.  All of them get = frequent broken strings.  I probably replace 5 to 8 a week.</P> <P align=left>I'd like to tune them at least once a month too, but = I wonder what I'd have to neglect to do it.</P> <P align=left>dave</P><FONT size=3> <P align=left><BR>__________________________________________</P> <P align=left>David M. Porritt, RPT</P> <P align=left>Meadows School of the Arts</P> <P align=left>Southern Methodist University</P> <P align=left>Dallas, TX 75275</P> <P align=left> </P> <P align=left><BR>----- Original message ----------------------------------------><BR>From: Avery Todd = <<A href="mailto:atodd@UH.EDU">atodd@UH.EDU</A>><BR>To: <<A = href="mailto:dm.porritt@verizon.net">dm.porritt@verizon.net</A>>, = College and University Technicians <<A href="mailto:caut@ptg.org">caut@ptg.org</A>><BR>Received: Wed, = 17 Sep 2003 09:39:52 -0500<BR>Subject: Re: Practice room grands</FONT></P> <P align=left><FONT size=3><BR>Dave, <BR><BR>If I had my = "druthers", I'd like to tune them at least once a month! With the<BR>kind of music = so many of the kids play (Prokofiev, etc.) and the numbers of <BR>hours = they're in heavy use, ours need that. Probably more. <BR><BR>The problem we = have here is that those piano major rooms (9 of the 10) have <BR>'lease' = Kawais and are changed out every year, so it takes a bit to start <BR>getting = even a little stability.<BR><BR>Avery <BR><BR>At 09:28 AM 9/17/2003 -0500, = you wrote:<BR><BR></P> <BLOCKQUOTE class=cite cite="" type="cite">The grand pianos in = practice rooms, the ones reserved for the piano performance majors, how = often do you tune these?  Do you have a schedule?  How do you = determine that?<BR><BR> <BR><BR>I have these pianos listed in my = inventory as 6x per year and I don't feel that this is = enough.<BR><BR> <BR><BR>Comments?<BR><BR> <BR><BR>dave<BR><BR><= BR>__________________________________________<BR><BR>David M. Porritt, RPT<BR><BR>Meadows School of the Arts<BR><BR>Southern Methodist University<BR><BR>Dallas, TX 75275<BR><BR> <BR><BR><BR> </BLOCKQUOTE><X-SIGSEP> <P></X-SIGSEP>______________________<BR>Avery Todd, RPT<BR>Moores = School of Music<BR>University of Houston<BR>Houston, TX</FONT> </P></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>