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Topic: String Breaking  (Read 1625 times)

Offline pianist7

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String Breaking
on: March 27, 2010, 10:22:03 PM
How would it be possible to break a piano string whilst playing? I am not planning on trying. :)

Offline pianowolfi

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Re: String Breaking
Reply #1 on: March 27, 2010, 11:09:20 PM
Well it can happen...




:P

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Offline lostinidlewonder

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Re: String Breaking
Reply #2 on: March 27, 2010, 11:50:41 PM
When I was visiting Turkey I did a concert on an old piano, it was a really bad piano. 6 strings broke while I was playing and the notes stopped making a sound but I powered on through until the end substituting notes lol. Usually old strings will break, with newer pianos it will be a string with a defect on it (a string is only as strong as its weakest point), it is actually pretty damn hard to break a new string unless you intentionally keep pounding the note and try to hit on its natural frequency and increase that until it breaks.

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Offline minor9th

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Re: String Breaking
Reply #3 on: March 28, 2010, 02:10:56 AM
Alexander Sultanov (R.I.P.) broke one during the Van Cliburn Competition. You can hear it snap on the CD that was issued from that competition (It's in "The Mephisto Waltz").

Offline peterjmathis

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Re: String Breaking
Reply #4 on: March 28, 2010, 12:19:41 PM
Yeah, it's old strings that are more at risk for this.
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