<HTML>In a message dated 11/7/01 4:20:49 AM Central Standard Time, hoffsoco@martin.luther.edu writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">As you increase the tension and approach the breaking point,  the weakest point of the wire will begin to fail.  As it does, that section becomes thinner.   If you stop at this point, you now have a wire with one of the wildest false beats you ever heard. </BLOCKQUOTE> So if I understand it right, the time to restring should be when a piano starts having more than its normal share of wild strings. (wild strings that cannot be corrected at the bridge or other termination points). So how many of you have restrung a piano with this parameter? Wim </HTML>