<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Hi, Rolf - <BR> <BR>I don't think high tuning pins would lead to string breakage - just "flag poling" and incurable loose coils.  I'd suspect damage in the stringing job, perhaps from excessively squeezing the beckets (perhaps with heavy Vise-Grips set to the max?) <BR> <BR></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=5 FAMILY="SCRIPT" FACE="Lucida Handwriting" LANG="0">             </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=3 FAMILY="SCRIPT" FACE="Lucida Handwriting" LANG="0">-     Tom McNeil     -</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=5 FAMILY="SCRIPT" FACE="Lucida Handwriting" LANG="0"> <BR></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=5 FAMILY="SERIF" FACE="Castellar" LANG="0">V</FONT><FONT COLOR="#008040" SIZE=4 FAMILY="SERIF" FACE="Castellar" LANG="0">ermont </FONT><FONT COLOR="#008040" SIZE=5 FAMILY="SERIF" FACE="Castellar" LANG="0">P</FONT><FONT COLOR="#008040" SIZE=4 FAMILY="SERIF" FACE="Castellar" LANG="0">iano </FONT><FONT COLOR="#008040" SIZE=5 FAMILY="SERIF" FACE="Castellar" LANG="0">R</FONT><FONT COLOR="#008040" SIZE=4 FAMILY="SERIF" FACE="Castellar" LANG="0">estorations</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0"> <BR> <BR>"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend.  Inside a dog it's too dark to read." <BR>   -   <I>Groucho Marx</I></FONT></HTML>