String breaker Too

[John Ross]

Have you looked for other reasons for the instability?
A/C off/on.?
Are the plate bolts tight?
That is just two possible reasons, that are nothing to do with pin tightness.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: PJR 
  To: Pianotech List 
  Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 5:52 PM
  Subject: String breaker Too


  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

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