Friends, This talk of string knots reminds me of my taking the RPT technical test in 1996. I made the knot where the one string end is a mirror image of the other, but somehow I made both ends exactly the same. As you may know, time is limited in this section of the test, and I didn't have time to do the knot over, so I pulled it to pitch and hoped for the best. The examiners said they had never seen such a strange-looking knot and were sure it wouldn't hold. They put more and more tension on the string until finally it tore somewhere else, so they had to give me credit. I took both the tuning and technical tests for the first time at Dearborn, and left the convention as an RPT. Clyde
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