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

[Avery]

Don't worry about it. When I was doing a lot of dealer work, I've had 
strings break on a brand new piano sitting on the dealer's showroom 
floor! There's either a flaw in the wire or a "burr" or something! 
:-) Just replace it and go on.

Avery Todd
University of Houston

At 07:56 AM 2/6/2007, you wrote:
>For what it's worth, the same situation (two broken bass strings) 
>happened to me last Saturday on a (never-been-tuned) three year old 
>Nordiska upright.  Both strings broke at the contact point near the 
>pin, but showed no signs of rust or corrosion.  I was not 
>overpulling them, but I was bringing them up approx. 32 cents with 
>extremely tight pins.
>It seems to me that new strings like this should be able to 
>withstand this amount of pressure.
>
>The situation rattled me quite a bit as it was a rather new piano 
>and I know the owner must have though I was a yahoo (Maybe I am).  I 
>made a note that if (unlikely) the owner calls again, to "be busy" 
>and recommend someone else.  For that matter, the same for anyone 
>who calls with that make piano again.  Is this piano prejudice?
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