Avery: We have our concerto competition coming up on the 26th. It will run from 6:00PM to 11:00PM. I'll not be there! Do your people break hammer shanks often? We seem to go through strings in a hurry, but I can't remember a broken shank. About all of our pianos have Renner (hornbeam) shanks and maybe that is why, I don't know. I do wonder about broken strings, but I haven't even thought of shanks. By the way, our Piano Department chair is scheduling the concertos in chronological order. Mozart first, working up to Prokofieff etc. Last year one of the hardest hitters played first doing the Tschaikowsky 1st concerto and the piano was out of tune for the rest of the night. He won the competition, but he is a 3 or 4 string a week player. Good luck. dave *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 10/14/00 at 10:13 AM Avery Todd wrote: >Hey, I just had another thought. It seems >like I vaguely remember from the past >sometime, some discussion about using >heat shrink tubing this same way. It >seems like that might be even faster. > >Avery > >>CA, drinking straws and stay cool. >> >> Newton David M. Porritt dporritt@swbell.net Meadows School of the Arts Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX 75275
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