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<A title=stephenairy@fastmail.fm =
href="mailto:stephenairy@fastmail.fm">Stephen
Airy</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A =
title=pianotech@ptg.org
href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Piano Tech list - PTG</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, July 01, 2003 =
2:48
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: String Breakage of =
the Third
Kind</DIV>
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<DIV>Before I restrung my upright, I remember breaking middle C =
(shared
with<BR>C#) at the speaking side of the bridge pin once while =
playing. I
noticed<BR>when I was playing C once that the unison was out of tune, =
and the
next<BR>thing I knew the string had snapped at the bridge =
pin.<BR><BR>Speaking
of breaking strings, has anyone ever had a bass string break IN<BR>the =
winding, or had the winding AND the core wire break and the =
two<BR>segments
separate from each other? Or, had the same string (bass =
or<BR>treble)
break in two different places at the same time? Also, how =
much<BR>of a
hazard could it potentially be to a performer if a fairly =
long<BR>string that
isn't under other ones breaks at the hitch pin or at
the<BR>bridge?<BR><BR>> I'm used to a tuning break being right at =
the point
where the wire <BR>> leaves the tuning pin coil, and a playing =
break right
at the <BR>> capo/aggraphe. But twice today, on the same piano, I =
had to
put on <BR>> fresh wire because string had broken at the speaking =
length
side of <BR>> the bridge, one apiece in the 5th and 6th octaves. =
The piano
is a <BR>> Steinway M which I restrung eight years ago. It's in the =
office
of <BR>> the music director of a local private school, and it's =
being used
by <BR>> a summer chamber music program.<BR> Stephen =
Airy<BR>
<A =
href="mailto:stephenairy@fastmail.fm">stephenairy@fastmail.fm</A></DIV>=
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> Yes, I've had the core wire break in the =
middle of the
speaking length, but not the winding! Must've just been a weak =
or nicked
place in the wire. Only one time in 25 years, =
tho'.
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<DIV>Dave Nereson,
RPT<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>pianotech =
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