---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment In a message dated 5/1/02 11:44:01 AM Central Daylight Time, BobDavis88@AOL.COM writes: > Unlike bass strings, treble strings do not become "shot." > > Yes, they do become fatigued. Take as an example a practice room piano > which > is used 12 hours a day. It may go through a set of treble strings in a few > years. They may remain new and shiny looking, but they all break at the > capo. > The same process is at work on all pianos; the practice room situation just > accelerates it. > > The customer isn't going to be happy with the instability of replacing > treble > strings one at a time. The extra day to do them all is well worth it. I > never > replace bass strings only unless the piano is VERY young and the bass > strings > are dead because of unusual circumstances. Someone else can take the > headache > of explaining to the client why his piano is never in tune. > > Bob Davis > If is it the "fatigue" that causes a string to break, then the strings in the middle of a practice room piano would break all the time. The strings that break most often are the ones at the top. It's the high tension, played hard, for a long period of time in a row, without dampers to slow the string down. I don't believe strings will become fatigued on a piano that's played nominally, even one that's a hundred years old. Wim ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/32/da/f3/b2/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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