Mike, At 12:25 4/7/98 +0000, you wrote: > >Ok, even with a "kinder-gentler" action as you and Conrad suggest. Just >how long can i keep lifting and working the same string... In the best of all possible worlds, and the string is not over-bent, you wouldn't need to rebend it every year. If you are releveling every year/humidity cycle, then the dead horse analogy becomes more apropos. What my computer tells me is an unrecoverable fault. The number of cycles before a string segment is work-hardened/brittle and fails would, in my non-metallurgical mind, vary with the diameter of the string. Others on this list could surely give you formulae. >fragment of brass decides to "get even" with me by bouncing off my nose to ruin my day? It really wouldn't be getting even, just responding to vector forces. Conrad Conrad Hoffsommer, RPT hoffsoco@martin.luther.edu Luther College Music Technician pno2ner@salamander.com Decorah, Iowa 52101 Voice (319)-387-1204 Fax (319)-387-1076 Oh wad some power the giftie gie us; to see oursel's as others see us! It wad some monie a blunder free us, and foolish notion. - Robert Burns
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