String Breakage of the Third Kind

[barr8345@bellsouth.net]

I did some head scratching doing a piano with 17 broken strings, one of which was broken both at the bridge and at the agraffe.

Norman Barrett

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Ballard" <yardbird@vermontel.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Monday, June 30, 2003 8:19 PM
Subject: String Breakage of the Third Kind


> I'm used to a tuning break being right at the point where the wire 
> leaves the tuning pin coil, and a playing break right at the 
> capo/aggraphe. But twice today, on the same piano, I had to put on 
> fresh wire because string had broken at the speaking length side of 
> the bridge, one apiece in the 5th and 6th octaves. The piano is a 
> Steinway M which I restrung eight years ago. It's in the office of 
> the music director of a local private school, and it's being used by 
> a summer chamber music program.
> 
> Has anyone else scratched their head over strings breaking at the 
> bridge pins during play?
> 
> Bill Ballard RPT
> NH Chapter, P.T.G.
> 
> "Lady, this piano is what it is, I am what I am, and you are what you are"
>      ...........From a recurring nightmare.
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