Claude wrote: I've had a couple of bass strings break like that. I usually lower the > lid when I tune the bass section, especially if there is anything precious > or expensive in harm's way. Claude - This happened to me once, and I wouldn't have believed it was possible if I hadn't seen it for myself. I was tuning a Kawai grand at an LDS church in our area, with the lid closed. A bass string broke while I was tuning with a particularly loud bang. Muttering to myself (I had 3 more pianos in the church to tune yet) I opened the lid to retrieve the string. It wasn't there! In confusion I started looking around, and there on the floor up against the wall was the string. It had flown between the 1/4" separation between the bottom of the lid and the upper part of the rim! There were a few little nicks along the edge of the lid, but other than that, the finish was unscathed. I would like to know what speed the string was traveling at for it to fly out of there like that. I don't remember which string it was, exactly, but it was one of the very lower ones, so it had a lot of mass to carry it. >From that time on, I make sure that no one walks behind a grand piano while I'm tuning it! Chuck -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20090418/dab6b586/attachment.html>
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