<HTML> <BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"> Hi Danny, I agree with you, I wouldn't want to turn the string more than 2 turns.  In actual practice, I probably end up with a little less than 2 turns in the upper end and a little less than 1 in the bass, most of the difference being in the angle at which I turn the coil onto the tuning pin.  It's pretty easy to put 2 turns in some of the tenor strings, but once you get to those large single strings, I have a pretty hard time just getting one good twist! Something that helps me to keep the coil tight and the loop on the hitch pin is when I put the coil on the tuning pin, I wind it just past where it needs to be to put it in the proper hole. Then I put tension on the wire, do the little twist, stick the pin in the hole, and pound it in.  I do most of my restringing by myself, so that tension helps me to keep from having wo walk around to the nose of the piano more than once for each string.  (The only one I had trouble with was the Baldwin with acujust hitch pins.  They can be a pain... but we have ways... Another thought that came to mind was that it may be easier or harder to put the twists into a wire depending upon not only it's diameter but upon its length.  Maybe it's easier to put those two twists on a wire that's seven feet long than one that's 3 feet long?  And perhaps a longer wire with 2 twists would have less 'distortion' of the core wire than the same 2 twists with a short one?  And for that matter, does it matter? But again, I do wonder about the quality of a string that would require 3 or 4 twists not to buzz and rattle.  Hmmm, I wonder if those guys on the tape were twisting the string in the right direction??? Just my 2 cents. Brian Trout Quarryville, Pa. Thos. D. Carpenter wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE>     WHEN I TWIST STRINGS......... EVEN IF I ONLY TWIST 2 ROTATIONS, IT MAKES HAVOCH WITH THE COIL.  MY CONCERN IS, CAN THIS BE CAUSING TRAUMA TO THE CORE.  i.e.-CAN THIS UNDULY STRETCH THE CORE, OR POSSIBLY, MINOR KINKS.  THE HITCH LOOP, FOR INSTANCE, IS ALWAYS ROCKED A BIT AT IT`S PIN.    I CAN`T SEE EVER TWISTING THE STRING MORE THAN 2 ROTATIONS.                                                                                    THANKS.                                                                                     TOM CARPENTER                                                                            <A HREF="mailto:carpthos@televiso.com">carpthos@televiso.com</A></BLOCKQUOTE>   </BODY> </HTML>