This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment O, List: may I ask yet again to tap in to your collective wisdom? I = need to accurately mic a string, and/or round up or down a size, = depending on which is safer. I had a treble string break during tuning yesterday (D#7) on a 1975 = Kimball console, right next to E7, which had also apparently broken = years ago (and was fixed by easing a tuning pin's width of string around = the hitch pin). Unfortunately, this rob-Peter-to-pay-Paul approach = failed; the string broke again at the becket long before it got up to = pitch. [Side note: the owner had taught piano and had had it tuned regularly, = so I figured the break was due to metal fatigue at the becket. I was = surprised when it broke again at the new becket I had just made. Shall = I expect more breaks? Does the steel become brittle over time, like = brass? There was a 25W DC bar plugged in, so little string corrosion = (and good pin torque).] I just bought a multi-anvil, friction, vernier micrometer. I've = measured this string (out of the piano, in different places) at .037 = twice and .035 once. There aren't too many straight places; the whole = piece is only about a foot long. Should I use the biggest size I've measured, assuming there may be = stretching (especially because of the break), or do I need micrometer = lessons? (Hmm, I should measure the strings on both sides, in the = piano...) Thanks... --Cy Shuster-- Bluefield, WV ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/43/77/0c/e7/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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