In a message dated 1/30/2010 7:28:09 P.M. Central Standard Time, tunerboy3 at comcast.net writes: Assuming nothing is rusty, it could be a section of bad wire. I would contact Schimmel seeing as how it is under warranty with the serial number and model # and inform them of it. You may have to replace the wire in that area to correct problem. I have encountered that too with Schimmel's, not enough room to feed the wire to the dang tuning pin hole. Maddening to say the least!!! Can't you precoil the wire on a free-held tuning pin and transfer the coil to the pin in the piano? P From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Greg Livingston Sent: Saturday, January 30, 2010 6:42 PM To: Pianotech list Subject: [pianotech] Schimmel- strings breaking Dear Friends, I seldom post questions here, but when I do, I get great information in response. Here's another. A customer has a four-year-old Schimmel upright. One year ago, while tuning it, three strings broke, all near each other just below middle C. (#18 wire) I spliced leaders on and continued with the tuning. Another one broke today in the same part of the piano, but the lower pin is so close to the pressure bar I had a lot of trouble getting the wire into the pin hole. I decided against a splice, and took the whole string off. I don't ram the tuning hammer; one broken string a month is a lot for me; yet this is a lot of broken wire in an almost new piano. Am I doing something wrong or is there something I don't know about the wire in this piano? Thanks, Greg ___________________________________________________ Gregory P. Livingston, Piano Tuning and Service 781-237-9178 Piano Technicians Guild, associate member (Boston chapter) "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..." We are constantly reminded of the first part, but somehow the second part gets overlooked. ____________________________________ Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM protection. _Sign up now._ (http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/196390707/direct/01/) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100130/a00d635d/attachment.htm>
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