Breaking Strings

Ron Torrella torrella@umich.edu
Fri, 25 Oct 1996 09:17:28 -0400 (EDT)


On Thu, 24 Oct 1996, Stan Kroeker wrote:

> tension scales on many of their models.  Apparently (I am not making this
> up) he was told Kimball used a special type of music wire better able to
> withstand these higher tensions.  I am having some difficulty believing
> such stuff exists but perhaps some of you could confirm/deny this?

Yeah, the Gotti family uses that special music wire for situations where
they want a nice, quick, clean job.  They want to be sure the string
doesn't break on them in the middle of the job....

Just a little Halloween Humor...  :-)

			       Ron Torrella
			Assistant Piano Technician
			  University of Michigan
			      School of Music





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