This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Mr. A440-or-die posting here: I serviced a 15-or-so year old Yamaha GH1 this evening. Lady lives right = on a salt water canal and leaves all windows and doors open 24/7 for = about ten months out of the year here in west-central Florida. Piano was a little rusty (never seen a piano more rusty that this one!). Pitch was 25 to 50 cents flat and three strings were broke. Raised pitch = to A441. Popped a half-dozen strings. After replacing strings the piano = was up to 20 cents flat in some areas. Raised pitch again to A441. = Popped a couple more strings. After replacing those, several areas of = scale were five to ten cents flat. Started bringing those areas up, = popped a couple more strings and then had to tell the owner that no way = was this piano going up to standard pitch by me (sure glad the two bass = strings that shot across the room missed that glass-fronted china = cabinet).=20 This piano has set a new rusty-string standard for me. I'll be going = back there to fine (?) tune the piano in a week or two - at whatever = pitch the piano settles at (my expectation is that it will be somewhere = below A440). But my question is could these strings be so weak that they = stretch much more than usual - kind of like a stretch right before it = breaks? It seems that when you bring a string up to standard pitch, it = stretches and settles at a lower pitch. Any other piano I have ever = pitch-raised pretty well stays where I put it - but not this one. I've = never seen anything like it. When removing a few of the old rusty broken strings, I would grab the = string with a pair of pliers to yank it out - and the sting broke again = - I've never before broke a piece of piano wire by just tugging on it! I told lady it is time to restring. Maybe that PureSound stainless steel = wire would be of benefit in this piano. The owner did tell my that she = is not changing her lifestyle for her piano, and that she is going to = keep that piano until she dies (I'd say she was 40s-ish and pleasingly = healthy, so that may be a while!). Terry Farrell ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/ef/12/45/40/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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