Noah: I had the same thing happen to me with a Schaff string which I ordered through Pianotek. I also could feel the tension increasing too quickly, and the string snapped at the tuning pin. I asked for a replacement, and could feel the same overly rapid increase in tension. I didn't bring it up to pitch completely because I could see that the winding was ending way too short from where it would be, as judged by comparison to the existing left unison. I am having a string made by Mapes from measurements, and hope their's does the job. I have never had this kind of problem before with any bass string. Anyone have any ideas? Bad core wire, perhaps? Patrick C. Poulson Registered Piano Technician 530-265-1983 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20110712/c0112985/attachment.htm>
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