Samick Grand Bass String Breakage Part2

[Ken Hale]

>elephant (Dino comes to mind here).  They WILL hit it rather hard, as the
>minister says"When the Spirit moves them."
> To refresh anyones mind this is not just one isolated piano, this is
>happening to me at two different churches, in two areas. Both are SG172's and
>both have more than 15 strings each that have broken.  Any help?

I had the same problem with a small Kimball grand & now the same with a
Samick upright. When I was asking around, phone calls to Mapes, etc., the
main suggestion, that kept coming up,  was the hard playing in conjunction
with heavy use of the sustain pedal.

Ken Hale