<div style="font-family:helvetica,arial;font-size:10pt;color:black"> <div id="AOLMsgPart_0_ab8c735d-7ff7-4fa1-ba08-286d6f358159" style="margin: 0px;font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif;font-size: 12px;color: #000;background-color: #fff;"><pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt> <<Is the following way - a good way to break the string or will it take the stretching? Twice now, I've pulled the string up to the next note (ex. G to G#), let it sit for a few seconds then tune it back down to (G). Would it break going up 2 notes (ex. G to A) ? </tt></pre><pre><tt>Usually going up a minor third will break most plain wire. Low tenor sometimes excepted. However, if you </tt></pre><pre><tt>don't break it, but just deform it, you will likely have a bad sounding wire.  </tt></pre><pre><tt> Most of the stretch on the open lengths </tt></pre><pre><tt>happens instantaneously. What takes time are the bends, but they can be settled fairly quickly if you are 100 cents</tt></pre><pre><tt>sharp. The coil usually has at least 100 cents of slack in it, and the becket will never see full tension. However, </tt></pre><pre><tt>I have found that squeezing the coil with a pair of small vice grips, jaws hollowed a little to grab better, and turning</tt></pre><pre><tt>in the direction of the winding will drop the tension profoundly the first couple of twists. It takes quite a massage to </tt></pre><pre><tt>get the coil tensioned with the string. </tt></pre><pre><tt>Regards, </tt></pre><pre><tt>Ed Foote RPT </tt></pre> </div>  </div>