<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" = http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.3700.6699" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi Mark,</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I must have strung several dozen pianos = since I started servicing pianos, and I never came accross something like that.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>For all that it's worth, the first = thing that came to my mind as I read your post is to inquire about the hardness of the = piano wire. After all, hard steel wire bent 90 degrees and fed into a hole = whose depth is anywhere from 5 to 10 times its thickness just shouldn't straighten = out this way. Most peculiar. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Perhaps the pins are made of such soft = material that the edge of the hole has become round and polished and it just = doesn't "bite" into the string as it should. </FONT><FONT face=Arial = size=2>Just my thoughts.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Peace,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Jean-Jacques Granas</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Warsaw</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></BODY></HTML>