Beginner Student and String Breakage

[Gevaert Pierre]

Here in Belgium we have one adress sellin Roslau blue German strings :

Taffijn Piano Supply
Hoevestraat  37 b
b-1755  Gooik. Belgium
fax : 32 54/56 79 95
----- Original Message -----
From: "Van Der Rhoer" <laurav1@mac.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2002 11:14 AM
Subject: Beginner Student and String Breakage


>
> Thank you all for your helpful suggestions and encouragement!  I will try
to
> learn as soon as possible how to replace strings (though I may have to
send
> to the U.S. for wire, not knowing who to contact here in Germany).
>
> Possibly I was on the wrong pin, but I think not, as I was being pretty
> careful checking each time.  But I will watch that all the more carefully
in
> future!
>
> Thank you Greg Newell for your tip to use a lubricant -- would McCall's VJ
> Lube do?  It came with the course.  Otherwise I will order Protek's Center
> Pin Lubricant as you mentioned.  Is it applied with a small paint brush or
> something else?  Also, I will follow your advice on checking whether the
> string has ridden up with the bridge pin.  (The note really sounded
> peculiar, as if it were loose or out of control, no matter which way I
> turned.  It kept reverberating as well, as if the sustain pedal were on).
> There is an illustration of what I think you were describing in Reblitz's
> "Piano Servicing, Tuning, and Rebuilding" Chapter Four p. 116 -- "gently
> tapping string down to bridge".  Should I be tapping the string or the
> bridge pins?
>
> I appreciate being able to ask some questions from time to time, I think
it
> will really help.
>
> Thank you Charles Neuman for your suggestion to write Randy Potter as
well.
> I thought he'd be overburdened perhaps.
>
> Many thanks to all again!
>
> Laura
>
>
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