<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 5.50.4616.200" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>And because, especially guitarists,  pull and bend the strings to alter pitch, resulting much metal fatigue.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>David Denison, RPT<BR>Long Island, NY<BR>Nassau Chapter</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>"Keep It Simple"</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> </FONT>----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=gnewell@ameritech.net href="mailto:gnewell@ameritech.net">Greg Newell</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=caut@ptg.org href="mailto:caut@ptg.org">caut@ptg.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, November 09, 2001 12:16 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: replacing plain wire</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV>Wim, <BR>    What about the fact that as the wire ages you get closer and closer to the elastic limit of the wire. I'd swear that I can sometimes tell when a string will break by the way it sounds. Another reason to me is the fact that the piano becomes harder and harder to tune with age because of string rendering problems. I suppose that these are related in at least a small way. Perhaps we could also ask ourselves why guitarists and other stringed instrument players find the need to replace strings too? <P>Greg </P></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>