<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Mar 23, 2006, at 11:12 PM, <A href="mailto:reggaepass@aol.com">reggaepass@aol.com</A> wrote:</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="correction"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.3333px; ">P. S. Even if the small wrapped strings don't break at +50 cents, do you think they could undergo some irreversible distortion capable of leaving th</SPAN><SPAN class="correction" id=""><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.3333px; ">em</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.3333px; "> sounding less good than prior to being tensioned so highly once they are returned to "standard" pitch?</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>I'm not sure of the elongation in the core wire caused by such a pitch raise, but if there was anything about the swaging and how the warp was bound to it that might cause an equal elongation of the "coil of wrap", the pitch raise might give such bass strings a significant push in the direction of loose windings. Not immediately, but maybe after a couple of weeks of hammering. Such elongation would be proportional to the over-all length of the piano.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Just an uneducated guess.</DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>william ballard</DIV><DIV><A href="mailto:wbps@vermontel.net">wbps@vermontel.net</A></DIV></SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">"I gotta go ta woik...."</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "> ...........Ian Shoales, DuckÕs Breath Mystery Theater</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">+++++++++++++++++++++</DIV></BODY></HTML>