Newbie Question - Strings

[Keith Roberts]

That's the way I look at it, we offer a service and if we are not prepared,
we look incompetent. Of course there are techs out there that have never
broken a string. They may have had a few worn out, rusty strings break while
they were tuning a piano, but they didn't break it. Even so, we look bad if
we can't fix it then and there. I don't say a word if one breaks, I just go
get the right size wire and put it in. I can be tuning again in 5 minutes.
Now if another string breaks...... of course after the first one popping,
I'm gun shy and 10 times more careful, I inform the client of the problem
with their piano and there will be an extra charge. After seeing that it
didn't take long to fix the first one, it doesn't worry them so much. I
haven't needed anything more than what is in the Shaff kit in 2 1/2 years. I
really haven't had that many break on me and have used as much wire fixing
ones that were broke when I got there.
My guess as to why they skip 1/2 sizes in size sixteen and up is that
stringing scales change sizes in whole steps in the tenor range, but that's
a wild guess. You definitely won't break many in that area of the piano.
Keith R

----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Neuman" <piano@charlesneuman.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2003 4:42 PM
Subject: Re: Newbie Question - Strings


> stringing, it seems that either you can offer that service or you can't. I
> imagine if you say to a customer, "I'll come back in a week with a string"
> then you've lost the job, or at least made yourself look bad. So I'm
> trying to determine what I would need, without buying too much stuff.
>
> Charles Neuman
> PTG Assoc.
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