Thank you all for your helpful suggestions and encouragement! I will try to learn as soon as possible how to replace strings (though I may have to send to the U.S. for wire, not knowing who to contact here in Germany). Possibly I was on the wrong pin, but I think not, as I was being pretty careful checking each time. But I will watch that all the more carefully in future! Thank you Greg Newell for your tip to use a lubricant -- would McCall's VJ Lube do? It came with the course. Otherwise I will order Protek's Center Pin Lubricant as you mentioned. Is it applied with a small paint brush or something else? Also, I will follow your advice on checking whether the string has ridden up with the bridge pin. (The note really sounded peculiar, as if it were loose or out of control, no matter which way I turned. It kept reverberating as well, as if the sustain pedal were on). There is an illustration of what I think you were describing in Reblitz's "Piano Servicing, Tuning, and Rebuilding" Chapter Four p. 116 -- "gently tapping string down to bridge". Should I be tapping the string or the bridge pins? I appreciate being able to ask some questions from time to time, I think it will really help. Thank you Charles Neuman for your suggestion to write Randy Potter as well. I thought he'd be overburdened perhaps. Many thanks to all again! Laura
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