yamaha C7-something brandnew

[Farrell]

WOW! I had run across a few loo-loos in the past week or two with upside-down coils, strings migrating around adjacent pins, and the like - but it sounds like yours gets the gold medal! Please - picutures, pictures!!!

I replaced six strings on a YC studio in a Baptist church the other day (they gauge their servicing intervals on the number of broken strings, not tuning state). One of them broke while I was tuning that had been replaced previously - I was able to tell the contact guy there that it was a string that had DEFINATELY not been replaced by me! It's a shame it should be so obvious.

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <HazenBannister@cs.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 11:21 PM
Subject: yamaha C7-something brandnew


> Hi list,
>   I went to a new church today for the first time.The call was, they had a 
> concert coming up June 8th, and wanted their piano tuned,and it had a broken 
> string.WRONG! It had 4 broken strings,it had about 5 or 6 strings where the 
> windings were off as much as 4 or 5 inches.It had about 7 or 8 strings,with 
> the old string (about a 5 or 6 inch piece of it sticking straight up, 
> crumpled,twisted on the end)still on under the new string.I have'nt taken one 
> off yet,and I can only guess from looking,that the old piece is halfway 
> through the becket, and the new string is halfway in the becket,  under the 
> the windings.Who would have thunk it! Has anyone ever seen this,I will take a 
> picture with my digital camera when I go back.Boy,do I look good following 
> these guys! It looks like a little stand of tree's growing out of the plate.I 
> guess you know what the bottom of the music rack looks like.
> Life is good,
> Hazen Bannister
>