Couldn't float it with mine. Not sure if it would help anyway? Mine requested A/440. They played it with the electronic organ and many other instruments and tuned it weekly. Plus, we had lots of out of town guest pianist's come in like Anthony Burger who liked it on pitch. Did you know that Anthony's father was a piano tuner? Trivial junk. Jer From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of paul bruesch Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2010 2:08 PM To: Paul McCloud; pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] string breakage, distressed underlevers This thread is very interesting to me, even though I don't have any such heavy-handed clients. It just occurred to me after reading all the tried-and-failed solutions, has anyone tried floating the pitch southward? Like maybe A-435? Seems like these churches sometimes have guitars and drums... not sure about trumpets or other less-flexible-pitch wind instruments. Or would this likely have the same non-effect of lower-break-percentage stringing? Paul Bruesch Stillwater, MN On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Paul McCloud <pmc033 at earthlink.net> wrote: We have a very large Baptist church that I used to tune for. They had purchased a new Baldwin L piano because they were breaking strings. Every time I went there, I had to replace at least two strings. They couldn't understand why this was happening, so I wrote a report on why it is common in churches for strings to break. I never heard from them again. The music program at that church has some very heavy handed players and they have other players that use the piano during services. The directors always blame the piano or the tuner for breaking strings. We had a "tooner" who used to put oil on the strings, bridges, all bearing points, deregulate the pianos, and add leads to the back ends of the keysticks to try to stop players from breaking strings. He ruined a lot of pianos trying to make sure strings didn't break. Never mind the piano, at least they didn't break strings after he worked on them. Paul McCloud San Diego -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20101109/13dcd0a8/attachment.htm>
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