Emergency Repairs

[Daniel Gurnee]

CAUT,

I have never had a failure repairing a diagonal break with aliphatic resin
and served with fine nylon thread. Stood up to heavy voicing as well.

Breaks at the hammer, if very carefuly pieced together can stand up to
rather vigorous playing without even glueing; with aliphatic resin applied
has stood up to a concert and subsequent voicing. The parts must be
perfectly mated, any bent slivers removed.

Dan Gurnee, Retired HSU, CA

> From: "David M. Porritt" <dporritt@swbell.net>
> Reply-To: caut@ptg.org
> Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2000 17:27:46 -0500
> To: caut@ptg.org
> Subject: Re: Emergency Repairs
> 
> 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
> 
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> 
> 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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