[CAUT] Flight of the Broken Bass Sting? (was:: Adams 1/4 tone sharppiano)

[David Love]

Yes.  I had a string fly rearward out of a Boesendorfer Imperial and put a
small hole in the wall about six feet behind the piano.  Since then I
discourage little kids from peering over the back of the rim while I tune.  

 

David Love
davidlovepianos at comcast.net 

-----Original Message-----
From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Jeff
Olson
Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 10:02 PM
To: College and University Technicians
Subject: [CAUT] Flight of the Broken Bass Sting? (was:: Adams 1/4 tone
sharppiano)

 

I've broken a lot of grand piano bass strings -- always the string and/or
piano's fault, I assure you! -- and must confess to never having observed
them flying free of the piano.  I remember one snapping back in my general
direction once when the hitch loop snapped, but it never quite made it to my
face, strinking (I think) the top of the partly opened lid before that.

 

On the theory that confession's good for the soul, I suppose I should also
admit that I have trouble visualizing a bass string flying free in the
manner that seems to hold such terror on this list.  Seems like there's a
fair number of obstacles to doing that, and I'm not sure that a bass string
possesses the kind of mass/elastic energy -- or whatever physics/technical
term applies -- to achieve such flight in any case.

 

But as someone who humbly bows before simple empirical fact, at least when
one slaps me in the face, I would certainly defer to those who've personally
witnessed a bass string take majestic flight from a grand piano.  Any chance
someone here might describe such an event?  (I've got an old grand I'm
seriously considering popping some strings on for experimental purposes.)

 

Best,

 

Jeff

----- Original Message ----- 

From: Andrew <mailto:andrew at andersonmusic.com>  Anderson 

To: College and University <mailto:caut at ptg.org>  Technicians 

Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 3:21 PM

Subject: Re: [CAUT] Adams 1/4 tone sharp piano

 

Jeff,
I was thinking that if I got stuck with one of these jobs I'd run truck
straps over the piano to restrain any flying strings and than seriously
suggest leaving them there. ;-)

Andrew Anderson

At 11:23 AM 3/24/2006, you wrote:




On Mar 24, 2006, at 11:10 AM, Wolfley, Eric ((wolfleel)) wrote:




Alan, in answer to your question about how sharp I would tune I would say 50
cents! It wouldn't make any sense to de-tune more...a semitone is just a
transposition. Any less or more than a quarter-tone (sharp or flat) would
diminish the effect.



Ok, here's a suggestion that sounds like a dumb southerner might suggest,
that should reduce risk of all this.

How about LOWERING the pitch 50 cents and transposing 1/2 step sharp?

Jeff

 

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