<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> Well,  as that great master of the piano Earl Wild maintained, and as he titled one of the Chapters of his Memoirs, "Banging is for the Bedroom"...... Best regards, David. <blockquote type="cite"> I understand your point Matthew. I think you understand mine too.  I’ve been tuning full time for over 37 years now and have encountered plenty of situations where the wire was faulty in certain sections but, to this day, I find no excuses for the pianist to repeatedly break wires “at will.”  As you said, you had a broken string wall of fame as if you pride yourself in that.  Fine.  I don’t agree with it though and won’t.   I had a Yamaha C7 once where the pianist broke over 110 wires on that ONE piano alone.  There was nothing wrong with the piano but, there was plenty wrong with his technique of smashing the keys with his fingers.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Jer</blockquote> </body> </html>