Failed string splicing -- charge for time?

[John Formsma]

On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 10:49 AM, Shawn Brock <shawnbrock at fuse.net> wrote:

>  John,
> I had the same thing on a  P22.  Same deal, 2 times my splice broke when
> the string was up to, or almost up to pitch.  Might I say that I have never
> had a splice break any other time.  The story is not over though...  I
> ordered another string from Schaff, put it on, and Bang! it broke.  I
> spliced it, and the splice broke on the new wire.  So, three splices and two
> broken strings later, I decided that I would change the wire size in that
> unison.  That seemed to work out better...  As in your situation I was
> dealing with the first unison in the tenor.  Good luck with all of that.
> Shawn
>

Shawn,

I'm starting to see a pattern here. :-) We might be dealing with a string
tension issue.

Did your wire size change fix the problem?

-- 
JF
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