Two broken bass strings in one tuning?????

[Alan R. Barnard]

Your piano "born on" date is 1966. You have to look under Acrosonic and read what the descriptions says.

I had the same thing happen on a much newer Baldwin. Two strings bring when I was substantially LOWERING pitch during very muggy weather. It was early in my career and one of those days when everything went wrong and took forever.

When I called to set the next tuning appointment, all I heard was "No, I don't think so ..."  Sigh. It happens.

Alan Barnard
Salem, MO
Joshua 24:15



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From: "Samuel Choy" <srchoy at charter.net>
To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org>
Received: 02/05/2007 10:27:18 PM
Subject: Two broken bass strings in one tuning?????


>What's up with this? I was tuning a Baldwin console tonight and two bass 
>strings broke!!! F2 (one of the unisons) and G1. I can't figure out why they 
>broke. There was no visible rust on the strings. I barely raised the pitch 
>when they broke. When the second broke, I decided to stop tuning. I didn't 
>have enough time to attempt a splice on the strings, so I'm going to go back 
>tomorrow.

>Any suggestions? Any ideas as to a cause? I was hoping to look up the SN in 
>my Pierce Piano Atlas, didn't see it. It's 809893, but the atlas didn't list 
>any SN close to that, so I wonder if I copied it wrong. I wish I had asked 
>the owner how old the piano is.

>Thanks. Sam. 



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