[pianotech] New string broke twice

[Encore Pianos]

And then there is Murphy's Second Corollary:  Anything that can be measured
can be measured wrong more than once.  

My workaround is to get away from measurements as much as possible.  For
things like locating pinblocks, soundboards, bridges, and plates, I try to
make and use jigs and indices that can locate things simply and precisely.
They can be much faster and more accurate than those measurements you took
wrong.  They help keep me from being a drooling idiot at least some of the
time.  

Will

P. S.  I like your euphemism "intimately familiar with these built in
shortcomings"   :-)

-----Original Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of Ron Nossaman
Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 3:13 PM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [pianotech] New string broke twice

On 7/19/2011 1:08 PM, Encore Pianos wrote:
> We'll just sit here quietly and pretend that you are the only person 
> who has ever made such a mistake J
>
> Murphy's Corollary: Anything that can be measured, can - and will - be 
> measured wrong.

Which is why those of us intimately familiar with these built in
shortcomings tend to question and recheck our own measurements, hoping to
minimize the screw ups.

Ron N