<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1106" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: = Verdana" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=rol= e_document face=Verdana color=#000000 size=3> <DIV> <DIV>HI Barbara,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I've worked on a 240 in recent times, but it is no more than 4-5 years old.  No string breakage as of yet.  Lots of frontscale noise, though.  It's a fine line between softening it enough and killing it on= those pianos.  </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I tune many Seilers, and many have had a wide variety of small problems= , but never anything like you describe.  I'd say try Seiler tech support,= but there really isn't any in the US at the moment that I know of.  I've be= en frustrated by this in working with customers with legitimate warranty issues.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Keep us posted.  If my 240 starts breaking strings, I'll let you know...</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Dave Stahl</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 5/26/05 3:20:36 PM Pacific Daylight Time, piano57@flash.net writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><= FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size= =2><FONT face=Arial size=2> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi all,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Just wondering if anybody out there can t= ell me anything about Seiler pianos, specifically, the 8' grand, model 240(?) mad= e 13 or 14 years ago.  I serviced one when it was new for a few years unti= l I moved away.  I remember having to stay on top of the voicing to = keep it from getting ugly (and to keep the front duplex from sizzling), but wha= t I remember most of all was the time I was tuning and a bass string broke, FLEW OUT of the piano across the room and hit an armoire.  Whew!   On another visit, a treble wire broke while I was tuning.  So, in 3 or 4 years 2 strings broke.   Then I move= d away.  For a long time, I wondered if somehow I could have had my tun= ing hammer on the wrong pin when that bass string gave way.  :-0</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>10 years later, the customer finds out I'= m back in the area and contacts me (that was nice).  I guess the string brea= kage problem got pretty bad and perhaps the tech that followed me, didn't voice= much, if at all.  I imagine the piano could have gotten ugly fairly quickly between not voicing and having strings replaced here and= there.  It turns out that the piano has been restrung and s= ome action work was done by an expert from out of town.  :-)   I contacted the tech who did the work and asked if the piano had been= rescaled, he said no.  So, I guess I could be looking at the same problems all over again.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Here's the question:  Are these pian= os prone to string breakage?  Is there something about the scale?&nb= sp; The piano is played a lot, and I *could* be mistaken, but I don't think th= e problem is player abuse.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Any comments?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Barbara Richmond, RPT</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=3></FONT> </DIV></FONT></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>