Breaking strings...

[Joe & Penny Goss]

Phill,
two at the most three considering the age of the piano and having already
warned owner that the extra expense of string repair will be $10.00 per
string.
Joe dont work for nothin Goss
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> From: Phil Ryan <pryan2@bellsouth.net>
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: Breaking strings...
> Date: Thursday, July 02, 1998 7:31 PM
> 
> Dear List,
> 
> I'm a newbie at tuning and ran across this situation- I was tuning an
> old (1920's) Edward Mason grand with the original strings. A quarter of
> the way through, pop! broke a treble string. No problem, I need the
> practice installing strings.Then pop!, another one.
> Pop...pop...pop...all the way up to ten broken treble strings, five or
> six notes apart, before I quit.  Yes, I used liquid wrench on the vbar
> and agraffes.  My question is-  how many strings should one break before
> declaring the piano untunable and in need of a restringing or
> rebuilding.  The owner is only interested in having it "tuned."  Any
> advice?
> 
> Phil Ryan
> Associate, PTG
> pryan2@bellsouth.net
>