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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap: break-word;-webkit-nbsp-mode: space;-webkit-line-break: after-white-space'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Some people are string breakers and some pianos are more prone to breaking strings due to scaling inadequacies. There is often some combination of those two factors. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>David Love<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>www.davidlovepianos.com<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Tom Gorley<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, September 21, 2011 12:18 AM<br><b>To:</b> joegarrett@earthlink.net; pianotech@ptg.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [pianotech] Petrofs<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>A local theater booked an act from New York. The pianist advised that we should expect broken strings. He said he broke many strings wherever he played. The theater had 2 Yamaha U-1's. He broke 8 bass strings in 3 days on the pit piano, in spite of having his own speaker monitor.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>The piano never broke a string before that time nor after.<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Corsiva Hebrew","serif";color:#223AA8'> </span></b><span style='font-size:15.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";color:#223AA8'>Tom Gorley<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Kokonor","serif";color:#910F08'>Registered Piano Technician </span><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Kokonor","serif";color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";color:#3E0093'> </span></b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";color:#3E0093'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif";color:#3E0093'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Sep 20, 2011, at 10:47 PM, Joseph Garrett wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Wim said: "When a string breaks at the pin or hitch pin, it's usually a<br>weak string. When it breaks at the agraff, it's usually hard playing. Do<br>you remember where this string was broken? As Jerry mentioned, the guy<br>might be practicing a particular piece of music where that note is hit<br>repeatedly. One suggestion is to check the voicing on that particular note.<br>It might be a little softer that the others around it, and the pianist is<br>hitting that note a little harder to create a louder sound, this putting<br>more strain on the string. "<br><br>Wim, <br>You are partially correct. When a string breaks at the agraffe or Capo,<br>etc. it can be many things. The last thing I would fault is the playing,<br>even tho I have known "musicians"(?) that could break strings at will.<br>These knot heads usually did it to get the "Night Club Owner" to fix/tune<br>the darned piano!<G> Or....simply because someone really pissed them off.<br>The first things to look at are structural. If all appears to be o.k., then<br>I'd check scale and hammers. Next regulation and then the possible "ham<br>handed" player. I once had a 85 lb. female entertainer type that completely<br>destroyed a Yamaha P22. Two reasons she did it: 1. she hated the gig and<br>the piano! 2. because she could! The lady had "chops"!!! One of the main<br>reasons these types of pianos self-destruct, is poor design, IMO. There<br>seems to be the brunt of piano design, nowadays, is to make them more<br>powerful. They try to do this by increasing the mass of the Sound board.<br>Then, to get that moving they increase the mass of the bridges and greatly<br>increase the tension! THEN, to add insult to injury, they put rock hard<br>hammers on the damned piano to get it to overcome all the built in problems<br>they put into the design! Stupid in my not so humble opinion. Then, they<br>say it's a "paino". Bullpuckey! It's a PSO and nothling more. Any aural<br>similarity to a real piano is purely coincidental! Lastly, we are asked to<br>make it "sound" correct! Yeah, like that's going to happen! 1st most people<br>of today don't have a clue of what a real piano is supposed to sound like.<br>Why? Because the music they listen to is so distorted by the recording<br>industry and the piano manufacturers. Even the top end pianos sound like<br>crap, most of the time. They need someone, ( a miracle man, so to speak),<br>like Andre to even make it slightly palatable. Tis' the "sound" of the<br>times. Sigh!!<br>That's the way I see it. (Definately why no one has ever asked me to design<br>a piano.<G>)<br>Regards,<br>Joe<br><br><br>Joe Garrett, R.P.T.<br>Captain of the Tool Police<br>Squares R I<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>