String breakage (was Re: I Raise the pitch...)

[Jim]

Hi Richard and Rob:

Have you noticed that when one restrings a piano without planing off the
string indentations and renotching the bridge, the beats come back
usually within a year?

Jim Coleman, Sr.

On Mon, 14 Apr 1997, Richard Moody wrote:

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>
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> > From: Rob Stuart-Vail <rob_sv@msn.com>
> > To: pianotech@byu.edu
> > Subject: RE: String breakage (was Re: I Raise the pitch...)
> > Date: Monday, April 14, 1997 6:10 PM
> >
> >
> > p.s.  Today I "rendered" the strings to the bridges on a Steinway
> 45 - the top
> > treble particularly had been bad bad bad for some years with false
> beats, and
> > I finally convinced the client that it was time for this to be
> taken care of,
> > along with action service.
> >
> >          The result was amazing!  Most of the false beats are gone.
>  Loose
> > bridge pins? I don't think so.
> >
>
>
> 	If they (false beats) come back you will write back?? and vice versa
> of course!
> Richard Moody
>