yamaha broken strings

[Avery Todd]

Charles (and others),

>I would agree with the general perceptions about the reasons for string
>breakage in the capo registers of grand pianos. On professional instruments
>that receive lots of heavy playing and tuning, these registers will require
>some serious attention at least every five years or so.

   Can you *really* go this long on a heavily played concert instrument
(I'm thinking Recital Hall here)? If I waited that long on ours, I'm afraid
they would be worn completely flat and sound like a tin pan.
   How often do others on the list file hammers on their concert instruments?

   BTW, speaking of filing hammers, I just tuned one of our lease pianos
that are going to be changed out this week and the clean-up "tech" from the
dealer had filed the hammers (a light filing, he called it). I pulled the
action to take a look and they had been "filed" alright. Just the grooves,
it looked like. There is now a nice little cup with ridges of unfiled felt
on each side of the  strike point on the hammers! I wanted to say
something, but I managed not to. Should I have? Opinions?
   This by a guy I talked to once about joining the PTG and he said he
didn't because he didn't believe it had anything to offer him!!!!
   Don't you just love it??



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Avery Todd, RPT
Moore's School of Music
University of Houston
Houston, TX 77204-4893
713-743-3226
atodd@uh.edu
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