<html> <body> You might try this: Gligor Tashkovich Representative Seiler Pianoforte America, L.P. SeilerPianosNA@aol.com In New York, I believe. He might be able to help. He's not a tech I don't believe, but he might be able to put you in contact with someone who can help. Avery At 01:48 AM 5/27/05, you wrote: <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">HI Barbara,   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.    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 been frustrated by this in working with customers with legitimate warranty issues.   Keep us posted.  If my 240 starts breaking strings, I'll let you know...   Dave Stahl   In a message dated 5/26/05 3:20:36 PM Pacific Daylight Time, piano57@flash.net writes: <dl> <dd>Hi all, <dd>  <dd>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 <dd>  <dd>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. <dd>  <dd>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. <dd>  <dd>Any comments? <dd>  <dd>Thanks, <dd>  <dd>Barbara Richmond, RPT <dd>  </dl> </blockquote></body> </html>