<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>Re: Becket</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"/> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"/> <style> </style> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff"> <div align="left"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><br/>Truly, one must always take great care when forming theories on limited data.<br/><br/>Or, as Mark Twain observed: "Indians always walk single file. I know this because I saw one do it once."<br/><br/>Alan Barnard<br/>Salem, MO<br/><br/> <div style="padding-right: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; border-left: #000000 3px solid; padding-top: 5px"> <hr/>Original message<br/>From: "Michael Kurta" <mkurta@roadrunner.com> </mkurta@roadrunner.com><br/>To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech@ptg.org> </pianotech@ptg.org><br/>Received: 12/9/2007 7:29:38 AM<br/>Subject: Re: Becket<br/><br/> <div align="left"><font face="Tahoma" size="2">    More info on the broken becket I experienced last week.  Mine broke at the mid-point of the 90 degree bend.  When I cut the remaining bend off to get back into straight wire, the wire "crunched" when cut rather than the usual resistance as if it had crystallized.  Another 1/4" down the wire it was normal.  Making a new becket bend and reinstalling the wire worked fine.  </font></div> <div><font face="Tahoma" size="2">    I agree with you Jurgen, in 20 years and 4,000 pianos I have never encountered this.</font></div> <div><font face="Tahoma" size="2">    Mike Kurta  </font></div> </div></font> </div> </body> </html>