<HTML>In a message dated 1/30/02 12:26:40 PM Central Standard Time, pianobuilders@olynet.com writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">While we're on the subject, I've also wondered if these arbitrary twist amounts we so often read about--i.e., one twist, two twists, etc.--are supposed to apply equally to Aunt Matilda's Baldwin Acrosonic and to Uncle Martin's SD-10? Del </BLOCKQUOTE> Seriously, I think it all depends on the piano and the strings. I restrung a S&S S once, and put one twist in all the strings. Several of them sounded terrible. So I twisted them again, Still tubby. So I let them go, and just put them on without a twist, and guesswha'? They sounded great. Wim </HTML>