I wrote: >I always wear glasses to tune, but has anybody ever really had blooddrawn by a breaking string? (And I wonder why more older violinistsdon't have blind left eyes...) Stan writes: 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. I was thinking that a violin string doesn't have to go very far to harpoon the eyeball of the hapless string player that is trying to tune it on their shoulder! Ed Foote RPT http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100516/713c57aa/attachment.htm>
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