<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" = http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2721.2900" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Rob</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>According to my client, the piano has = never been restrung or any other "major" work done,and other tunres have been = breaking strings. She assumes this is just part of the job of = tuning.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Paul Chick</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: = 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: = black"><B>From:</B> <A href="mailto:rrg@nevada.edu" title=rrg@nevada.edu>Robert = Goodale</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A = href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org" title=pianotech@ptg.org>pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, December 15, = 1999 9:47 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Knabe grand</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV>Dad's wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE="CITE"><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=-1>List</FONT></FONT><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=-1>I = tuned a Knabe Grand and broke a bicord string. This piano shows a history of = string breakage at random across the scale</FONT></FONT><FONT = face=Arial><FONT size=-1>(to date 6 places).</FONT></FONT><FONT face=Arial><FONT = size=-1>The first tuning I did 6 months ago I broke a string just above the = break. The piano has a very steep rise from the agraffs. Its at A440. I can't = see any reason for the problem. Is this typical of Knabe grands of this = vintage, or is it just this one. I have tuned 2 or 3 over the years, and one for = a different client once a year for several years. Any clue?</FONT></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE> <P><BR>With this age is there a change that the piano has been = restrung in the past?  If so it is possible that the technician that did the work = might have changed the scaling to something with higher string = tension.  This could explain a lot. <P>Rob Goodale, RPT <BR>Las Vegas, NV </P></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>