I almost feel that rust acts like little ball bearings, and actually lessens the chance of string breakage. Because, I have also noticed string breakage, where no rust is present, and little breakage where it was present. John Ross, Windsor, Nova Scotia. On 2010-09-12, at 6:23 PM, Mike Kurta wrote: > Roger: > You are 110% correct in your analysis. I agree with you completely. I have encountered old uprights stored on a porch outside for years that were nothing but a ball of rust and 100 cents flat. I was sure I would break every string. Yanked it up 130 cents, do a second tune and not one string broken. > The next piano, a 3 year old Kimball in good shape, snapped one as soon as the pin was nudged. There is little rhyme or reason to string breakage and almost no predictability. > Mike Kurta, RPT > N. Michigan chapter > Keytop Specialist -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100912/a49be79a/attachment.htm>
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