[CAUT] pre-stretching new string?

[Ron Nossaman]

>> 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 doesn't, and it is so.


>It is change in 
> _temperature_ that affects more those strings that are at a low 
> percentage of their breaking strain.
> 
> JD

A change in temperature changes string length.
Ron N