<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2712.300" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bottomMargin=0 bgColor=#ffffff leftMargin=3 topMargin=0 rightMargin=3> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>John: I've had it happen once to me.  Another local tuner had it happen to him in a grand, and the end of the wire whipped up and flicked him in the eye!  He didn't feel anything wrong with the eye but went to an optometrist immediately anyway. Apparently the broken end of the wire just grazed his eyeball and left a red dot there.  A few millimeters closer, and ouch!  He was lucky that time.  Patrick Poulson, RPT</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=pianoserv440@juno.com href="mailto:pianoserv440@juno.com">John R Fortiner</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, February 03, 2002 3:45 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> where does it break?</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>Last week I was tuning a Haines Bros. uprt.  I've had bass wires break before, but this time one broke at the <STRONG>loop</STRONG> instead of around the coil. ( I was sure glad that action was between the wire and me.)  Just curious - how often has this happened to you.  I can only recall one other time that I've had this experience in 20+ years.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>John R. Fortiner</DIV> <DIV>Billings, MT.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>