This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment MessageHmmmm .... maybe give the lady more let-off, like 3/16". =20 Or will that just make her wang it harder? You mentioned a warranty: Have you called Kawai for advice? They'd like = to stop the carnage, too.=20 Alan Barnard Salem, MO ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Byron Quam=20 To: pianotech@ptg.org=20 Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 2:52 PM Subject: Breaking strings on a new Kawai grand I recently tuned a four-year-old Kawai GE3 and ended up replacing 13 = broken strings (26 unisons). I found out that the client has broken = twenty some strings since she bought the piano. She is a tiny (100 lbs) = third year performance piano University student that is studying under a = Russian instructor. The Russian instructor possibly explains the banging = technique that she has acquired. She told me that she has broken strings = on other pianos. All of the broken strings are in the high mid-treble = and low high-treble and broken at the capo bar and some of the replaced = strings have been broken. =20 I realize that this piano would probably not have any problems in 95 = percent of the homes it would be placed in because the players would not = pound so. However I'm wondering: =20 1. Could it be a flaw in the piano design or construction? =20 2. If anything can be done to make these strings less susceptible to = breakage? =20 Any insight would be appreciated. These strings are covered by = warranty but the situation is not good because she has to practice on a = piano with missing strings or newly replaced (constantly going flat) = strings. =20 Thanks =20 Byron Quam - piano tuning and repair Vancouver BC ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/12/0f/48/da/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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