Its a Yuri Gellar thing. Joe Goss RPT Mother Goose Tools imatunr at srvinet.com www.mothergoosetools.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jeff Olson" <jlolson at cal.net> To: "College and University Technicians" <caut at ptg.org> Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2006 7:45 PM Subject: Re: [CAUT] Re. Flight of Broken Bass String > (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. >
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