<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Jer,</SPAN></div> <div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto"></SPAN> </div> <div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Have you also taken into consideration that it may just be the composers (and/or publishers) fault why strings keep breaking and not the professors?  I mean, when you come across an "fffff" marking, it is not to be taken lightly  :-).<VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR></SPAN></div> <DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><B><FONT color=#0000ff size=4><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal"></SPAN></FONT></B><B><FONT color=#0000ff size=4><U>TODD PIANO WORKS</U></FONT></B> <BR><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=3>Matthew Todd, Piano Technician</FONT> <BR><FONT size=3>(979) 248-9578</FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff size=3><A href="http://www.toddpianoworks.com/" rel=nofollow target=_blank>http://www.toddpianoworks.com</A></FONT></DIV> <div><BR></div> <DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> <DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT size=2 face=Arial> <DIV style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 0; MARGIN: 5px 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; HEIGHT: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 0px; BORDER-TOP: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px" class=hr contentEditable=false readonly="true"></DIV><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Gerald Groot <tunerboy3@comcast.net><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> pianotech@ptg.org<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Tuesday, September 20, 2011 7:49 AM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [pianotech] Petrof vertical string breakage.<BR></FONT><BR> <DIV id=yiv1199947558> <STYLE></STYLE> <DIV class=yiv1199947558WordSection1> <div class=yiv1199947558MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Watch him play.  Find out how hard he plays and what he plays to make it break.  Don’t say anything about suspecting that it might be HIM that is the problem because he may just set back and not play as hard then.  Ask what happens at that point when it breaks.   Chances are, my guess, would be that it is him that is the problem in one particular song that he likes to play.  I run into that frequently at my college when one particular professor is practicing the same song over and over and over again for a recital or concert.  She’s broken the same strings on the same song yet, when she changes songs, the strings stop breaking.  She has a VERY hard touch and this is what is causing it and she knows it.  I’ve tried replacing with smaller and, larger diameter wires. It makes no difference in her case…  </SPAN></div> <div class=yiv1199947558MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> </SPAN></div> <div class=yiv1199947558MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Jer</SPAN></div> <div class=yiv1199947558MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> </SPAN></div> <DIV> <DIV style="BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"> <div class=yiv1199947558MsoNormal><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">From:</SPAN></B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Al Guecia/Allied PianoCraft<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, September 20, 2011 7:30 AM<BR><B>To:</B> Pianotech List<BR><B>Subject:</B> [pianotech] Petrof vertical string breakage.</SPAN></div></DIV></DIV> <div class=yiv1199947558MsoNormal> </div> <div class=yiv1199947558MsoNormal>I have been servicing a 2001 Petrof vertical since 2006 with no problems. In Aug 2010 my customer called and thought a string may have broken. It had and I replaced the string (#14 1/2) and tuned the piano. I tuned the piano again in Jan 11 & May 11 everything looked good (by the way, he is the only player and plays only classical music). I just got a call that a string has broken again and he thinks it may be the same one. </div> <DIV> <div class=yiv1199947558MsoNormal> </div></DIV> <DIV> <div class=yiv1199947558MsoNormal>This piano has agraffes throughout. Any thoughts or suggestions? And if it is the same string should I go with one size smaller?</div></DIV> <DIV> <div class=yiv1199947558MsoNormal> </div> <DIV> <DIV> <div class=yiv1199947558MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">Al -</SPAN></div></DIV> <DIV> <div class=yiv1199947558MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt">High Point, NC</SPAN></div></DIV> <DIV> <div class=yiv1199947558MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt"> </SPAN></div></DIV> <div class=yiv1199947558MsoNormal> </div></DIV> <div class=yiv1199947558MsoNormal> </div></DIV></DIV></DIV><BR><BR></DIV></DIV></div></body></html>