<html> <body> Don't worry about it. When I was doing a lot of dealer work, I've had strings break on a brand new piano sitting on the dealer's showroom floor! There's either a flaw in the wire or a "burr" or something! :-) Just replace it and go on. Avery Todd University of Houston At 07:56 AM 2/6/2007, you wrote: <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">For what it's worth, the same situation (two broken bass strings) happened to me last Saturday on a (never-been-tuned) three year old Nordiska upright.  Both strings broke at the contact point near the pin, but showed no signs of rust or corrosion.  I was not overpulling them, but I was bringing them up approx. 32 cents with extremely tight pins.  It seems to me that new strings like this should be able to withstand this amount of pressure. The situation rattled me quite a bit as it was a rather new piano and I know the owner must have though I was a yahoo (Maybe I am).  I made a note that if (unlikely) the owner calls again, to "be busy" and recommend someone else.  For that matter, the same for anyone who calls with that make piano again.  Is this piano prejudice?</blockquote></body> </html>