Pitch raising on older pianos

[Kristinn Leifsson]

'Tis not imagination.  In the bass, just before the string breaks I can 
feel a slight hindrance, then the subsequent release of that hindrance...oh 
darn, maybe it is my imagination, and that´s exactly to what I´m going to 
leave it :þ

Kristinn L.





At 18:21 1.9.2000 -0700, you wrote:
>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.)