Need the speaking lengths. David Love www.davidlovepianos.com -----Original Message----- From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Wally Scherer Sent: Friday, April 08, 2011 12:02 PM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: [pianotech] Breaking bass string My customer has a 1920's era player, upright. The strings are old, but still tunable. The low F# had been replaced by a previous tuner - it was the only one still copper colored. However, when I went to tune it, it broke. (I had tuned the piano about 3 years previously and it didn't break then.) There were no signs of rust on the broken string. The F# that broke has a core diameter of .049" and an outside (single wrapped) diameter of .165". The F below it has a core diameter of .050 and od of .173. The G above it has a core diameter of .049 and od of .146. So, the measurements seem like a suitable progression. I am guessing that when it was replaced before, the same measurements were kept, which may have resulted in too high a tension for that string, hence its breaking in the first place. Maybe I should order one with the same core diameter, and an od of around .160". Any other opinions? A FINE TUNE - Piano Tuning & Repairs Wallace T. Scherer, piano technician, music educator 5020 Canal Drive, Lake Worth, Florida, 33463-8014 Telephone: 561-432-4121 Web page: http://aftune.angelfire.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/A-FINE-TUNE-PIANO-TUNING-REPAIRS/1298450103661 85 ------------------------------------------------ FREE TICKETS: http://aftune.angelfire.com/freetics.html
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