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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out AOL Video to see what's making news today! John M.Ross Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20080827/0cd28979/attachment.html
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