Piano Firing Missiles at Church Congregation

[PDtek@AOL.COM]

I had a church with the same problem. They were at the end of their rope. The 
6 year old Baldwin SF 10 had been throwing strings into the congregation for 
some time and they were demanding a permanent solution. None of their past 
tuners had been able to help with the standard regulating cures, or by 
telling them that their pianists were just playing with too much enthusiasm.

The bottom line was that the scale was simply designed with too much tension. 
Replacement strings would just break as easily as the originals. I talked to 
the good people at Mapes and they said they could make me a set of lower 
tension bass strings and they sound as good as the originals. About two years 
now and no broken strings. The congregation can feel comfortable in the front 
row now without their protective head gear.

Dave Bunch