[CAUT] Re. Flight of Broken Bass String

[Jeff Olson]

 (curious) ssssssssnn:

> Here you have a piano professor who routinely busts wire
> right and left. He knows he does it. Why doesn't he think about
> what part of his playing is doing it, when other pianists with
> MASSIVE sounds aren't breaking anything?

I don't know, but this whole thread about flying bass strings and 
people who have mysterious powers to break strings without really 
slamming them is starting to creep me out.

I had a case a few years back of an autistic young man who broke 
strings constantly -- new strings and old.  I'd go over there and 
replace bass and treble strings every couple of months.  I 
finally had the chance to watch him play.  He wasn't loud or 
obviously overpowering.  He had a very "choppy" style, insofar as 
I could identify it, and he could play long, difficult pieces 
purely from memory.  Sure enough, he broke a new bass string 
(replaced a few months ago) while playing.  Thank God this was on 
a console, or the string doubtless would have launched like an 
ICBM and taken out a school bus or something.  :-%

Jeff O.