<font color='navy' size='2' face='Comic Sans MS, sans-serif'><br> <font size="2" color="navy" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif"><br> <br> <div style="clear:both"><tt><tt><font color="darkgreen"><br>  </font><br>  </tt></tt><font face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif"> My Dad sold many, many of these in the 70s and we were concerned about the bass angles way back then.</font><br> Yamaha P202s have a very steep angle around there respective terminations near the tuning pins. Couple that with the petrified felt hammers and heavy string grooves and its a perfect storm for broken wire.<br>   The remedy is new quality bass strings and a hammer transplant, and these pianos are quite musical and useable. An institutional work horse.<br> </div> <br> </font><font size="2" color="navy" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif"><font size="1" color="royalblue"><b><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, Serif"><font color="black"><font color="mediumblue" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">Dale Erwin... 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Higher tension scales that are played hard end up with work hardened strings that loose their elasticity after a few years. Then they start breaking. Time to rescale and restring. That’s Dean’s analysis, FWIW.</span></font></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"> </span></font><font size="2" color="navy" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif"><font size="2" color="navy" face="AGaramond"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:AGaramond;color:navy">Dean W May  <br> </span></font></font></div> <div> <div class="MsoAutoSig"><b><font size="5" color="navy" face="Lucida Calligraphy"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"><br> </span></font></b><font size="2" color="navy" face="AGaramond"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:AGaramond;color:navy">                   </span></font><font color="navy"><span style="color:navy"></span></font>The only Yamahas on which I've experienced frequent string breakage are the old P202 studio uprights (found mostly in schools), and, of course, those older pianos with heavily grooved or packed-down hammers that need either filing, softening, or voicing, or all three.  <br> </div> <div class="MsoAutoSig"><a target="_blank" href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/PianoRebuilderscom/137780082943148"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> --David Nereson, RPT  </span></font></div> </font></a></div> </div> <div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center" align="center"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><hr align="center" size="2" width="100%"></span></font></div> </div> </div> </div>  </div> </font></font>