Aw, James their just funnin' ya. There IS some danger of damage to the piano and, if you don't get a good becket and coil the strings life and fine-tunability (?) may be less than par. A more interesting question: How did it break? During tuning? By ... whom? If you have a qualified tuner-tech, call him/her. If not, why not? Learning to tune and repair by working on just one piano a couple of times a year? Sheeesh ... if so, get a real good tuning from a pro and see how good that Yamaha can sound. Then you can make a logical decision about which you value more, "fiddling with stuff" or preserving the value and musical quality of a good piano. Just my $.02 Alan Barnard Salem, MO ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Gammon" <jtg5f@cms.mail.virginia.edu> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 11:56 PM Subject: Re: Broken String > Did I miss something? Is this request unusually outlandish? Did I > somehow indicate that I wanted the string pre-tuned, or even thought > that such a thing was possible? I just happen to be a guy who likes > to fiddle with stuff, and wouldn't mind the experience of putting the > new string in myself. My understanding is that a new string costs > around $10, so unless this understanding is wrong, it's worth breaking > > another one (or two) to a tinkerer like myself to have the experience > of re-stringing it. I know how to tune it to a unison with the > other E3 string. Perhaps I stand to do serious damage to the piano > somehow? If this is the case, by all means, I'll have a registered > technician do it. > > Confusedly, > > jame
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