Last Hurrah?/ broken strings

[Joe & Penny Goss]

Hi Paul,
Interesting! Wether it was luck or less movement of the string lessining the
flex of the termination point Humm
Where were most of the knots?

Joe Goss
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----- Original Message -----
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Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 6:56 PM
Subject: Re: Last Hurrah?/ broken strings


> Mark:
> Your advice is good. The same thing happened to me several years ago when
I
> was tuning a Yamaha C-3 for 2nd City here is Chicago; bass strings popping
> every performance, and anguished screams at 9 at night from the stage
manager
> and producer. I had them buy a full set of strings to keep on hand, and
began
> to replace the broken ones with the new, and then to re-tie the new when
they
> broke. Interestingly enough, when tied, the new/old strings never broke
> again. They finished that series of performances before we ran out of new
> strings, and then sold the piano. It was an annoying source of income for
> while.
>
> Paul Revenko-Jones
>