Evelyn Is the piano played by the same person all the time? I'm not totally familiar with the M, but are these notes the first without?dampers? What I'm getting at is the type of playing that's being done on these two notes: hard and percussive, for effect. Perhaps reducing hammer blow, increasing let off, and adding a .015 punching to?the front rail might solve the problem Wim -----Original Message----- From: Evelyn Smith <evelynsmith at triad.rr.com> To: pianotech at ptg.org Sent: Sun, Aug 2, 2009 3:56 pm Subject: [pianotech] string breakage--repeat offenders Hello all, I'm having trouble with a few treble strings that keeps breaking on?a 1982 Baldwin M. The strings are?at the beginning of the 2nd capo, and they?always?break at the capo bar.? The second and third strings (G#-A6 and A6) are the main repeat offenders. One of them breaks about every two years. I have sanded the capo smooth, and there are no burrs that I can see or feel. There is a bit of a edge on the backside of the capo, and I'm wondering if that's the culprit.?I've tried changing the wire gauge by 1/2 size up and down, and filed the hammers, but the breakage continues.? I'm ready to file the capo with a metal file as described in Ed McMorrow's book, The Educated Piano. But I'm tired of trying things that don't work. ?Has anyone else solved this problem?? Thanks,? Evelyn = -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090803/1c207a34/attachment.htm>
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