Pitch raising on older pianos

[David Ilvedson]

What I don't like is my concentration being disturbed by the BANG.  I still
find my heart racing a bit.  No I can't say that I have any idea a
nanosecond in advance that a string is going to break.  Sounds like a vivid
imagination...

David I.

PS.  I use to have a bad habit of immediately removing my tuning lever when
a string broke..."Freudian slip"?...then of course I couldn't see if I was
on the wrong pin.  I have cured that and it usually isn't me that broke the
string.

WIMP!
Take the pain and love it! :)
Adopt a "well, there goes the first one" attitude.
Doug Smith, who lives in San Diego now, once had a customer behind him
while he broke a string... uhm... WHILE A STRING BROKE, I should say.  The
customer didn´t notice anything, until he said exactly that.

But yeah, I feel that way too sometimes when going down the bass.
Doesn´t everybody here recognize that split second feeling that you get a
nanosecond before the string breaks?

Hang in there Clyde!

Kristinn


At 07:19 1.9.2000 -0400, you wrote:
>Friends,
>
>I wrote many moons ago that I am almost paranoid about breaking
>strings.  I got
>over some of that.  However, I have two clients with pianos that I've been
>servicing regularly over about ten years with relatively little
>problem.  Then,
>all of a sudden, two single-wound strings tear during the same
>tuning!  Call me
>a wimp, but I find it almost impossible to get myself to go back, even
though
>I'm not causing the breakage.  At least the one had overlapping coils.
>
>Clyde
>
>kam544@flash.net wrote:
>
> > 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.)