I did some head scratching doing a piano with 17 broken strings, one of which was broken both at the bridge and at the agraffe. Norman Barrett ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Ballard" <yardbird@vermontel.net> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 8:19 PM Subject: String Breakage of the Third Kind > I'm used to a tuning break being right at the point where the wire > leaves the tuning pin coil, and a playing break right at the > capo/aggraphe. But twice today, on the same piano, I had to put on > fresh wire because string had broken at the speaking length side of > the bridge, one apiece in the 5th and 6th octaves. The piano is a > Steinway M which I restrung eight years ago. It's in the office of > the music director of a local private school, and it's being used by > a summer chamber music program. > > Has anyone else scratched their head over strings breaking at the > bridge pins during play? > > Bill Ballard RPT > NH Chapter, P.T.G. > > "Lady, this piano is what it is, I am what I am, and you are what you are" > ...........From a recurring nightmare. > +++++++++++++++++++++ > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives >
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