Failed string splicing -- charge for time?

[Shawn Brock]

Yep John,
changing the wire size in that first unison seemed to do the trick.  The piano has held up fine after that.  
Shawn
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: John Formsma 
  To: Pianotech List 
  Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 6:44 PM
  Subject: Re: Failed string splicing -- charge for time?


  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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