<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> Hazen, I never saw anything quite *that* bad.  It makes you wonder if the person who did the string work was perhaps not even a tuner of any type.  Maybe the strings even came from a junk piano somewhere; or were they universal replacement strings?  Still, that workmanship sounds so poor that anyone able to think clearly should have been able to do better. Regards, Clyde HazenBannister@cs.com wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE>Hi list,  I went to a new church today for the first time.The call was, they had a concert coming up June 8th, and wanted their piano tuned,and it had a broken string.WRONG! It had 4 broken strings,it had about 5 or 6 strings where the windings were off as much as 4 or 5 inches.It had about 7 or 8 strings,with the old string (about a 5 or 6 inch piece of it sticking straight up, crumpled,twisted on the end)still on under the new string.I have'nt taken one off yet,and I can only guess from looking,that the old piece is halfway through the becket, and the new string is halfway in the becket,  under the the windings.Who would have thunk it! Has anyone ever seen this,I will take a picture with my digital camera when I go back.Boy,do I look good following these guys! It looks like a little stand of tree's growing out of the plate.I guess you know what the bottom of the music rack looks like. Life is good, Hazen Bannister</blockquote> </html>