<HTML>Concerning reducing string breakage, someone says, <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT= : 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">(with >possibly let-off at 3/16" to 1/4") </BLOCKQUOTE> I have often seen lengthening the letoff as a suggestion for over-exuberant = pianists who break strings. It seems to me that lowering the letoff would cu= t the sensitivity on soft playing more than robbing power from loud. Not wha= t you want to do with an already insensitive player. Why not shorten the blo= w instead? Actually, both of these pale next to a monitor in the ear [prefer= ably inserted forcefully]. Oops, okay, I apologize. Bob Davis</HTML>