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  • 1.  Practice Room Broken Strings

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 11-06-2018 10:16
    I made one of my rounds of the piano room grands this morning searching for broken strings -- I found none.

    Do others have the experience that most of the broken strings in university practice rooms happen early in the semester?

    I have often thought that the piano majors begin new pieces at the start of each term and the clumsy early practice seems to result in broken strings, while the later, more practiced, more refined, more elegant playing results in much less breakage.

    So, maybe it isn't bravura pieces that break strings so much as it is less fluid playing in the early stages of practicing a new piece of music?


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    Kent Swafford
    Lenexa KS
    913-631-8227
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  • 2.  RE: Practice Room Broken Strings

    Registered Piano Technician
    Posted 11-06-2018 13:33

    Naw, They happen all the time.  I need to replace a lot of worn out hammers!  Budget restraints keep me in the practice rooms often sadly. 

     

    I do have a really nice Steinway L in the shop finally to get a new set of hammers. I will most likely restring at least the capo section as that's where they break when the hammers go.

     

    I have not seen a correlation on times of the semester, but I would venture to say it's the exuberance of a new semester, or the panic of the end of the semester where most strings break.

     

    Paul

     




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