I had a 1900 Everett grand with the original strings in my shop a few years ago for restringing and just for the yahoo of it my son and I decided to see just how far above pitch you could pull a string before it broke. We did maybe a dozen or so and pretty regularly we would pull them about 300 cents sharp before they broke. That surprised me a bit. Terry Farrell > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Kurta <mkurta1 at comcast.net> > To: toddpianoworks at att.net; pianotech at ptg.org > Sent: Tue, Mar 2, 2010 7:57 am > Subject: Re: [pianotech] String Breakage > > SNIP > We had a chapter meeting once where we took a junk piano and > everyone took a turn at purposely trying to break the strings. We > each brought our tuning wrench and took turns cranking tighter and > tighter until the strings broke. It was amazing! Most pins turned > 1/2 a turn or more before the string let go. > Again, there is no rhyme or reason...... > > Mike Kurta, RPT > Chicago chapter -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100302/95837a62/attachment.htm>
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