Oh, I don't know about that. I used to tune for our local county Jail here for years until I finally quit. I was allowed to carry in my entire tuning case with all of the assorted tools and strings needed whenever one required replacement. The guards walked me directly to the piano in these cases and stood 'guard' to make sure I was not assaulted for the entire time I was working. From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of bppiano at aol.com Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 12:23 AM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] Strings help needed, please As you or your brother has found out, the piano itself will play just fine, however the two notes you mentioned will have a slightly lesser volume. The two note involved need to have the broken string removed from the piano. The size string would be a 15 1/2 gauge string probably and the next time the tuner comes to service the piano, he will most likely replace it. Piano wire would mak a most effective garroting weapon, so I doubt it would be allowed past the guards and left in the hands of a professional (piano tech that is). Bruce P -----Original Message----- From: mediumship <mediumship at verizon.net> To: pianotech at ptg.org Sent: Sun, Jul 12, 2009 6:38 pm Subject: [pianotech] Strings help needed, please I am in need of some technical information and am hoping that someone might be able to help me. I am writing on my brother's behalf. He is the piano tuner at a prison in Ohio and one of the "Yamaha P22" pianos is in need of 2 new strings which he has informed me are "B5" and "C6." Unfortunately, he does not have any measuring equipment to reorder these two strings and has asked me to write to see if anyone can send the diameter of each of the two strings and/or any other specifications he might need for re-ordering these two strings. The men there look forward to playing their music daily and I would like to help them get back to it. I am not in familiar territory with this request but am most sincere. Thank you! "Medium" ~ Boston, MA _____ Stay cool with this summer's hottest movies. Moviefone <http://www.moviefone.com/summer-movies?ncid=emlweusmovi00000004> brings you trailers, celebrities, movie showtimes and tickets! _____ avast! Antivirus <http://www.avast.com> : Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 090712-0, 07/12/2009 Tested on: 7/13/2009 9:28:59 AM avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2009 ALWIL Software. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090713/95f70706/attachment-0001.htm>
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