Greg, I had a upright Schimmel that was about three years old and had the same thing happen but above middle C. Had been tuning this instrument since it was new. I have other pianos where a batch of string was bad and the Manufacturer had me re string all of that size wire. We have a dealer in central Wisconsin that seems to not believe me and I have not worked on the piano since. Ron At 05:41 PM 1/30/2010, you wrote: >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. ><http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/196390707/direct/01/>Sign up now. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100131/63bb86e7/attachment.htm>
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