That's written the score...;-] David Ilvedson, RPT Pacifica, California ----- Original message ---------------------------------------- From: "Susan Kline" <skline at peak.org> To: "College and University Technicians" <caut at ptg.org> Received: 3/25/2006 6:47:05 PM Subject: Re: [CAUT] Flight of Broken Bass String >At 07:53 PM 3/25/2006 -0600, you wrote: >>Yes, I'd say so. The longer strings are stretched farther physically (if >>not by percentage), so they have a longer acceleration power curve in >>which to get up to speed. >> >>Ron N >I was a freshman at Oberlin, attending an orchestra rehearsal, when a pianist >playing a Bartok concerto broke one of the lowest singles of a D. It sounded >like a rifle shot. Don't remember it flying across the room into the first >violins, at least. >Susan
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