Hi Paul, They break at the Agraff, V-bar, bridge pins and hitch pins I've seen plenty of strings break at those first three locations (usually hard playing aggravated by a heavy foot on the "gas" pedal), but I've only seen one in all these years break at the hitch pin. How many hitch pin breaks did you have on this church's piano? Thanks, Alan Eder -----Original Message----- From: Dempsey Jr., Paul E <dempsey at marshall.edu> To: pianotech <pianotech at ptg.org> Sent: Tue, Nov 9, 2010 3:42 am Subject: Re: [pianotech] string breakage, distressed underlevers I'll bet the Julliard School doesn't have many Yamaha G-1's. Also, the kind of playing you describe will eventually break strings on ANY piano. There likely IS something wrong. The piano is too small. I serviced a five year old Yamaha C5 at a local Pentecostal Church. The pianists there are continually breaking strings over the whole compass of the keyboard. They break at the Agraff, V-bar, bridge pins and hitch pins. Bass Strings and plain wire. I told them and told them that their vicious style of playing was the cause. I increased let-off, decreased blow distance, and voiced the hammers nearly to mush. They never noticed any change in the action or tone and they still break strings. I resigned the account. Paul E. Dempsey, RPT Piano Technician Sr. Marshall University Huntington, WV 304-696-5418 304-617-1149 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20101109/4e6cfe51/attachment.htm>
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