<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2627" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> <DIV><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 = tell me anything about Seiler pianos, specifically, the 8' grand, model 240(?) = made 13 or 14 years ago.  I serviced one when it was new for a few years = until 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 = what 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 = moved away.  For a long time, I wondered if somehow I could have had my = tuning 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 = breakage 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 some 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 = pianos prone to string breakage?  Is there something about the = scale?  The piano is played a lot, and I *could* be mistaken, but I don't think = the 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=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV></FONT></DIV></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>