[CAUT] Re: Imperial with Breaking Bass Strings

[Ray T. Bentley]

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Don't necessarily believe it.  A string broke on a Bosendorfer with me
before it got to pitch.  This one was a low bichord on a piano just over
10 years old.  Bosendorfer sent me a defective replacement from their
string scale pattern at first, and made me pay the shipping for the
returning the original for duplication when the one they sent was
defective.  I lost big money on that one!  Shipping at that time was
about $50 each way plus the thirty something for the string.
 
Ray
 
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Ray T. Bentley, RPT
Registered Piano Tuner-Technician
Alton, IL
ray@bentley.net
www.ray.bentley.net <http://www.ray.bentley.net/> 
 
 

-----Original Message-----
From: caut-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of
Ken Zahringer
Sent: Friday, January 07, 2005 8:29 AM
To: College and University Technicians
Subject: [CAUT] Re: Imperial with Breaking Bass Strings


Hey, Dave,

I don't have a lot of experience with them, but I broke the bottom C
string on ours the first time I tuned it.  The string cost $34 (from
Boseendorfer) and I'm still waiting for it.  I could have had it shipped
UPS from Austria for about $150, but I decided to wait on the container.

I asked the dealer who sold them this piano, who is also a technician,
if he had any tips on tuning the bottom extra notes.  He said, "If you
break the string, you were too high."  And there you have it.
-- 
Ken Zahringer, RPT
Piano Technician
MU School of Music
297 Fine Arts
882-1202
cell 489-7529



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