Saturday, May 15, 2010 12:46 PM
From:"Ed Foote" <a440a at aol.com>
To:pianotech at ptg.org
I
remember a bass string break in 1976. I think Aaron Bousel was tuning
a 9' M&H at Harvard when the North Bennet class was over there
getting our feet wet. It broke at the hitch pin and the end of this
thing went whizzing by his head. I have often wondered how far into me
the end of a freshly broken string would go. Anybody got any
experience?
I always wear glasses to tune, but has anybody ever really had blood
drawn by a breaking string? (And I wonder why more older violinists
don't have blind left eyes...)
Ed Foote RPT
http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html
Considering the actual mass of a violin string and its (relative) stiffness, I don't think it likely to carry far enough to be a real danger. Fortunately! (Tension is certainly lower, too...relatively!)
Stan Ryberg
Barrington IL
jstan40 at sbcglobal.net
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