[CAUT] breaking strings, Kawai KG-2A (1997)

[David Ilvedson]

What is "stock Yamaha wire"?   

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA  94044


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Subject: Re: [CAUT] breaking strings, Kawai KG-2A (1997)


>Dave writes: 
><< After 3 - 4 years they just get that way.  After restringing the capo
>sections they calm down for a while and then in a few years it's time to
>do the whole piano.  Kawai's might be more prone to that than some, but
>our practice room pianos now are all Steinways and they do the same
>thing.  It really is string fatigue.  They pretty much all break at the
>capo bar. >>

>  I will ditto that for the Yamahas we have at Vanderbilt.  after three 
>years, I am replacing, on average, two-three strings per week among the 7 C-2's in 
>the practise rooms.  The softly voiced pianos break them as commonly as the 
>harsh ones.   
>   The Steinway's are no exception,  I had three strings break on a pair of 
>L's that were no more than 6 months old.  Oddly enough, two of these strings 
>broke at the bridge, which is something I have seen only once before in 30 
>years.  
>    Carbon steel has a finite number of times it will allow its plastic 
>deformation limit to be exceeded. A steady stream of testosterone-poisoned Liszt 
>wa
>nnabes is hard on the pianos, but good on job security.  I do think that the 
>Mapes Gold series of wire is more durable than the stock Yamaha wire.  I know 
>that the Yamaha bass strings will break right at the coil if the string lifter 
>flexes them more than once. 
>   I say, "let'em break, that is what I am there for."
> 
>Ed Foote RPT 
>http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html
>www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html
>