Those 2 broken bass strings

[PIANOTECHNICIAN at aol.com]

I'm not sure of how much this helps, but before tuning older pianos, or  
pianos where I suspect a bass string might break, I put a drop of CLP on the  
string at the bearing point on the upper plate. Also, I learned the trick of  
lowering the pitch just a bit before pulling the pitch up during tuning. I'm  
thinking of keeping a little book on which makes and models - -including serial  
numbers -- give me trouble with broken strings, so that I could 
avoid future problems by not raising pitch on these models. For  instance, 
the Sohmer 34-96 is an excellent piano, but many of them are prone to  broken 
strings after the treble break, depending on when they were  manufactured.
 
Jesse Gitnik
NYC
Since 1980
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