<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.5730.11" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV>You replace a bass string for a customer and you want to tune the new string sharp enough so that when it's all broken in, it will settle down to the exact pitch it's supposed to be at. You want to stick a mute on it, and tell the customer to pull out the mute after x number of weeks, and the string should be just about in tune at that time, with no need to come back several times to re-tune it. Does anyone know any kind of formula, based on the string measurements and tension, that will tell what pitch to tune it to and how long it will take to settle down to the right pitch? If there were such a formula, we wouldn't have to keep coming back to the customer every few weeks to re-tune the string until it breaks in.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Jesse Gitnik</DIV> <DIV>NYC</DIV> <DIV>Tech. since 1980</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>