oops..... stop the press.....minor correction.....it was D4 agraffe the pooped out during the setting of the temperament. My memory is so unreliable! L ----- Original Message ----- From: Lou Novak<mailto:pianoservice at msn.com> To: pianotech at ptg.org<mailto:pianotech at ptg.org> Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2010 5:29 PM Subject: Re: [pianotech] Catastrophic Events While Tuning... Worst for me was; Tuning for a recording session, the D3 agraffe broke while setting the temperament. Didn't make much of a sound, just a pitiful oink. Naturally the session was delayed - I removed the agraffe, the three individually looped strings, and scurried across town to the "shop", found an agraffe that would work - cut and looped 4 replacement strings (one extra just in case) - returned to the scene of the crime, installed the agraffe and strings - no way that D was going to stay in tune - all the while the owner was watching very closely to make sure I did no further damage. Very embarrassing - All in all, it ended well but not right away, multiple visits were necessary - and after some time the session was on. I still have a cassette copy of the tape with nothing to play it on! - It was 15 years or so ago, but I remember it as if it happened yesterday. -Lou ----- Original Message ----- From: J. Stanley Ryberg<mailto:jstan40 at sbcglobal.net> To: pianotech at ptg.org<mailto:pianotech at ptg.org> Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2010 4:59 PM Subject: Re: [pianotech] Catastrophic Events While Tuning... Saturday, May 15, 2010 12:46 PM From:"Ed Foote" <a440a at aol.com<mailto:a440a at aol.com>> To:pianotech at ptg.org I remember a bass string break in 1976. I think Aaron Bousel was tuning a 9' M&H at Harvard when the North Bennet class was over there getting our feet wet. It broke at the hitch pin and the end of this thing went whizzing by his head. I have often wondered how far into me the end of a freshly broken string would go. Anybody got any experience? I always wear glasses to tune, but has anybody ever really had blood drawn by a breaking string? (And I wonder why more older violinists don't have blind left eyes...) Ed Foote RPT http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html Considering the actual mass of a violin string and its (relative) stiffness, I don't think it likely to carry far enough to be a real danger. Fortunately! (Tension is certainly lower, too...relatively!) Stan Ryberg Barrington IL jstan40 at sbcglobal.net -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100515/e5ed6a3d/attachment-0001.htm>
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