Thank you for asking about my welfare. I am now semi-retired and have become involved in a meditation organization called Science of Spiritualty which takes a lot of my time. You may like to look it up: kzbin.infocmoUjxwS-dk?feature=share or any of the "Global Meditation in Place Sanr Rajinder Singh Ji Maharaj" videos. They are quite enlightening. Take care, best regardsd, Etienne.

Hello Jerrie, Here is some information: What strings do I use? There are three types of strings used: 1) Plain strings: For a full restring, use piano/music wire. You will need sizes 9 to 5. Eg: PIANO WIRE / Original Röslau piano steel wire available from Ebay. For a few replacement strings, use guitar steel strings of the same gauge as the broken one, or the string next to the broken one. You need a micrometre to measure the gauge or take the broken string to your nearest music shop and they will measure its gauge. 2) Thin wound strings: Use wound steel guitar strings. These can be purchased from your local music store or from Ebay* (Eg: SIT Phosphor Bronze Wound Acoustic Guitar Single String). You will need sizes 0.032”and 0.026” 3) Thick copper bass strings: These strings are wound with a copper wire within the length of the vibrating section only (they wouldn’t fit through the pin hole), therefore they have to be custom made. These can be ordered from a string manufacturing company such as Lenzner in Germany (www.lenzner-strings.de). When ordering, you will need to specify: 1) The pitch 2) The vibrating length 3) The length of the copper winding should be about 30mm less than the vibrating length. 4) Ask for no loop and 180mm extra at each end (you will make your own loop).

Hello, I can send you some information via my website etiennedelavaulx.com.au Cheers