[CAUT] pre-stretching new string?

[John Delacour]

At 9:18 pm -0500 9/6/07, Ron Nossaman wrote:

>Once again. Strings at a tension putting them at a lower percentage 
>of breaking tension change pitch more for a given length change than 
>strings at a higher break%.

That contradicts Hooke's law 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooke's_law>, not to speak of 
Pythagoras, and cannot be so.  It is change in _temperature_ that 
affects more those strings that are at a low percentage of their 
breaking strain.

JD