look ma! no hands!

Alan R. Barnard mathstar@salemnet.com
Fri, 9 Aug 2002 09:12:33 -0500


Strings NEVER break all by themselves, silly, they are broken by the
You-Are-Already-Running-Late-For-Your-Next-Appointment Gremlin. Didn't you
know that?

Alan Barnard

P.S. The only law this creature obeys is Murphy's.

----- Original Message -----
From: <Tvak@AOL.COM>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 8:28 AM
Subject: look ma! no hands!


> Finished tuning the Kimball grand and climbed under to adjust the pedal
rod
> which had some lost motion.  Suddenly I hear a 'ping'!  "What was that?"
> Sounded metallic.   Climbed back up and examined the piano to find that a
> string (G7) had broken.  All by itself.
>
> Pretty strange, eh?
>
> Tom Sivak



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