<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16640" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Yep John,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>changing the wire size in that first unison seemed to do the trick.  The piano has held up fine after that.  </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Shawn</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=formsma@gmail.com href="mailto:formsma@gmail.com">John Formsma</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech List</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, April 18, 2008 6:44 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Failed string splicing -- charge for time?</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV class=gmail_quote>On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 10:49 AM, Shawn Brock <<A href="mailto:shawnbrock@fuse.net">shawnbrock@fuse.net</A>> wrote:<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE class=gmail_quote style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"> <DIV bgcolor="#ffffff"> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>John,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I had the same thing on a  P22.  Same deal, 2 times my splice broke when the string was up to, or almost up to pitch.  Might I say that I have never had a splice break any other time.  The story is not over though...  I ordered another string from Schaff, put it on, and Bang! it broke.  I spliced it, and the splice broke on the new wire.  So, three splices and two broken strings later, I decided that I would change the wire size in that unison.  That seemed to work out better...  As in your situation I was dealing with the first unison in the tenor.  Good luck with all of that.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Shawn</FONT></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>Shawn,</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>I'm starting to see a pattern here. :-) We might be dealing with a string tension issue.</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>Did your wire size change fix the problem?</DIV><BR>-- <BR>JF </BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>