<!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 6.00.2800.1505" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Michael said:"<FONT face="Times New = Roman" size=3>Hello Susan and List. Gregor phoned me from Germany simply to = ask =<BR>whether I had put his strings on yet - and that '8mm stretching' =<BR>business was his reason for phoning. He said (inter alia) one of = his =<BR>clients had kept a set of strings for two years and then phoned = with a =<BR>complaint of loss of tone. So I'm hurrying things along. I have = only =<BR>today to complete the restringing and am down to 39 notes left = (A3) =<BR>They're all slack as yet, of course! S&S have this large gap = in their =<BR>stringing table - it goes in half-steps to guage 16 1/2  = then suddenly =<BR>there's a whole load of guage 17. Any reason, anyone, why I = shouldn't =<BR>insert a guage     17 1/2 in there at note 39 = and continue to the =<BR>specified change to 18 at note 35?<BR>>From a = pelting down cool Sussex Downs. Glad to be going to Verona =<BR>tomorrow!<BR>Michael,</FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV>Can We Say "Scale Evaluation"?????????!!!</DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Joe Garrett, R.P.T.<BR>Captain, Tool Police<BR>Squares R I</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>