<!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 6.00.2800.1515" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>David I. said: "<FONT face="Times New = Roman" size=3>I'm still the dinosaur, I guess.   I don't use any = over pull during pit=<BR>ch raises...and a string will still break on occasion.   I can't imagin=<BR>e bringing a piano from -100 = cents to +25 cents without serious string =<BR>breaking..."<BR>David I.,</FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" = size=3>Hence, the reason for my article, PTJ, Dec.99 I spent a lot of time "tweaking" that = "program" and find it is less abusive to strings, as it is designed to = NOT exceed Breaking Strengths and still get stable = results.</FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Regards,</FONT><BR></DIV></FONT> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Joe Garrett, R.P.T.<BR>Captain, Tool Police<BR>Squares R I</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>