[CAUT] Flight of Broken Bass String

[David Love]

The hitchpins are generally sloped toward the tail, so when the string lets
go at the agraffe the loop just slides off the hitch and the string is
projected rearward loop first.  

David Love
davidlovepianos at comcast.net 

-----Original Message-----
From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Susan
Kline
Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2006 6:45 PM
To: College and University Technicians
Subject: Re: [CAUT] Flight of Broken Bass String

At 05:38 PM 3/25/2006 -0800, Jim wrote:
>"BANG-swish-SLAM!!.  Just like that.

I've never had it happen, but I've heard of it.

Picturing how it gets out of the piano, supposing it
breaks at the agraffe, ... does the broken end curl
over the tail of the case, ripping the loop off the
hitch pin, before heading for points unknown? That is,
does it rotate, held by the loop? I always imagined it
flying across the room loop first, but how could it?

Can anyone confirm? Broken end first, ready to impale
whatever gets in its way?

Susan