String breakage

[Ed Sutton]

Lance-
By any chance was that piano on a riverboat?
Ed S.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Lance Lafargue" <lancelafargue@bellsouth.net>
To: "'College and University Technicians'" <caut@ptg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 8:57 AM
Subject: RE: String breakage


> This P-202 was within the last 5 years.  It may be called a P-22 now
(45").
> They were really banging on it.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: caut-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org]On Behalf Of
> Susan Kline
> Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 8:33 PM
> To: College and University Technicians
> Subject: RE: String breakage
>
>
> Yes, those early P202's did have troubles in the bass. Remember, it
> was just after they took over the Everett factory. After breaking
> two bass strings while tuning three very lightly used P202's at a
> school, I looked, and saw that the string approached the coil at a
> bad angle, so that it was trying to ride up where the coil first
> started, especially for the lowest row of pins.
>
> This was before they sent out rescaled strings, but they certainly
> got my attention by sending me a complete set of bass strings, gratis.
> Superb
> service -- if only the design had been as good as the service reps!
>
> It all seemed so needless -- if they could just have drilled the
> tuning pin holes so the pins leaned back at an angle, I doubt that
> they would have broken any wire to speak of.
>
> Susan
>
> At 11:07 AM 2/25/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> >Lance wrote:
> > >Susan, my biggest string breaker was Macedonia Baptist Church with a
> Yamaha
> > >P-202 also.  Yamaha/dealer paid me to replace the bass strings with
> rescaled
> > >strings with heavier core wire.  They haven't broken any since.
> >
> >Susan, Lance,
> >My biggest string breaker was also a Yamaha P202.  Similar Baptist Church
> >setting.
> >
> >Yamaha told me to use the different scale bass strings as well, and sent
> >them to me.  Apparently, they keep records of frequency of string
breakage
> >for each string for each model.  The service rep could tell me which bass
> >strings had the highest occurrence of breakage.
> >Jeff
> >
> >
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