Reading Wim's solution brought to mind a similar problem: I service a small(4'11") Weber(Korean) grand in a piano bar. It is only three years old. They have about five piano players that take turns beating the tar out of that piano every night. I tune it every two weeks and it is horrendously out of tune with at least two broken treble strings each time. The tuning pins seem normally tight ( I don't have a torque wrench) and I pound the tuning in good, but it is noticeably out of tune in a matter of days. I know that this is not the quality of piano for this venue, but my question is, would CA gluing the pins be a solution to keep this piano in tune, being only three years old? I've never doped a piano this young. Is there any other solution that might stop this slippage? Would Wim's (et al.) solution of a monitor speaker be a viable solution? Phil Ryan Miami Beach Willem Blees wrote: > Jim > > Tell the church to put a monitor speaker behind the pianist. He/she is > trying to play as loud as the drummer sitting next to him/her. But > since he/she can't hear the piano over all the racket, he/she plays > louder. A monitor speaker right behind him/her will help. But the > piano player has to do his/her part, too. > > Willem (Wim) Blees, RPT > Piano Tuner/Technician > Honolulu, HI > 808-349-2943 > www.bleespiano.com > Author of > The Business of Piano Tuning > available from Potter Press > www.pianotuning.com > > > -----Original Message----- > From: James Johnson <jhjpiano at sbcglobal.net> > To: pianotech at ptg.org > Sent: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 4:00 am > Subject: String breaker > > I have a Kawai model 500 in a church which constantly has broken bass > strings. All the breakage occurs from B2 up to the break. I am > getting tired of ordering replacement strings and actually order them > in multiple sets now so I have several replacements on hand. I have > deregulated the action to reduce power (no, the pianist hasn't > noticed) and that helped a bit, but broken strings are still an almost > weekly occurance. Any suggestions? Would rescaling that part of the > piano help? > Thanks, Jim Johnson > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out AOL Video > <http://video.aol.com/show/ap/101923?ncid=aolvdp00050000000184> to see > what's making news today! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20080827/c83911e8/attachment-0001.html
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