verrry interesting!! :-)

[gordon stelter]

Maybe not just plate stress. Maybe soundboard rising,
increasing tension on remaining strings.
     Thump

--- JIMRPT@aol.com wrote:
> We have often spoken of plate stress and how it is
> transferred to other 
> sections/notes as a string(s) broke or were
> loosened. I have never seen a 
> better example than the little Apollo grand I am
> removing the strings 
> from.......
> The bass strings are out and I was in the process of
> removing tension from 
> the tenor section.....when 'pong''' a string broke
> in the octave 5/6 
> section!! as I kept removing tension from the tenor,
> strings kept popping in 
> the 5/6 area...a total of six altogether
>  As I was relieving tension in the 5/6 area the
> strings in the top section 
> 6/7/8 starting breaking also !!
>  Now the strings that broke were all kinda really
> rusty and broke fairly 
> easily but I thought it was a perfect example of
> plate stress and stress 
> transferance............
> I have never had this happen to me before.
> 
> Jim Bryant (FL)
> p.s. the plate is a full perimeter plate.
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