Repeated string breakage is frequently a combination of heavy playing and playing with the sustain pedal on all the time. Dean Dean W May (812) 235-5272 PianoRebuilders.com (888) DEAN-MAY Terre Haute IN 47802 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/c8be6056/attachment.htm>
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