Pitch raising on older pianos

kam544@flash.net kam544@flash.net
Thu, 31 Aug 2000 22:23:47 -0500


>...This on a piano with absolutely beautiful strings that
>looked just as safe as they could be...I spent over an
>hour and a half just trying to save myself and salvage strings...
>Ron N

Been there once.  Just starting out on a clean looking Baldwin Howard and
POW, POW, two bass strings in the double string area snapped.  Froze in my
tracks like that deer thing.  Customer was right there too.  Said, "In all
my days this was freaky and shouldn't be happening."  (At this time
_Twilight Zone_ started to play in my head.)

We traded a few words about what direction to go, and decided to continue
on with A440 as the target and see what else happens.  No more broke of all
things.  Took care of the two that did and went on my way.

> It's just not safe anywhere out there!...

Lions and tigers and bears, oh my.

Keith McGavern
Registered Piano Technician
Oklahoma Chapter 731
Piano Technicians Guild
USA




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