Breaking strings (new angle?)

[Elian Degen]

Bill and List.

Jim is right, several years ago I was in charge of tuning the pianos of the
Teresa Carreño Theatre (in Caracas), the National Theatre and the Municipal
Theatre, They have a total of  seven Grands six Steinways and a
Bossendorfer, The newest by that time was 20 years old, The two main pianos
( Steinways ) were tuned almost every day. I worked for them for six years.
Never had a string breaking during tuning, They had strings breaking
depending on the performer.

Elian


-----Mensaje original-----
De: Bdshull@AOL.COM <Bdshull@AOL.COM>
Para: pianotech@ptg.org <pianotech@ptg.org>
Fecha: Jueves, 25 de Febrero de 1999 05:16 p.m.
Asunto: Re: Breaking strings (new angle?)


>Dr. Jim,
>
>I was surprised at your statement about frequent tuning not causing string
>breakage.  I have always believed that the combination of solid hammer
blows
>and string rendering fatigued the wire beyond what heavy practicing did to
the
>wire.  Do you have a technique that gets stability without eventual
breakage -
>am I missing something here?
>
>Bill Shull
>U of Redlands (yes, Jim, the same former Amer. Baptist school you visited
with
>the glee club), La Sierra U
>Bdshull@aol.com