<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> Ok., Ok. perhaps a guitar wasn't the best possible comparison. Still contaminants do get on piano wire too, no? I think I already mentioned the metal fatigue. <p>Greg <p>David Denison wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE><style></style> <font face="Arial"><font size=-1>And because, especially guitarists,  pull and bend the strings to alter pitch, resulting much metal fatigue.</font></font> <font face="Arial"><font size=-1>David Denison, RPT</font></font> <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>Long Island, NY</font></font> <br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>Nassau Chapter</font></font> <font face="Arial"><font size=-1>"Keep It Simple"</font></font><font face="Arial"><font size=-1> </font></font>----- Original Message ----- <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 href="mailto:gnewell@ameritech.net" title="gnewell@ameritech.net">Greg Newell</a></div> <div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:caut@ptg.org" title="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>  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</blockquote> </blockquote> <p>-- <br>Greg Newell <br><A HREF="mailto:gnewell@ameritech.net">mailto:gnewell@ameritech.net</A> <br>  </body> </html>