Overstretched

What made me think about Robert Pershing Wadlow was that I happened to notice he was exactly the same length as a Steinway Model 'D'! On the R. P. Wadlow site I linked to, his height is given as slightly less, but I always remember reading that it was 8' 11¾" ("eight feet, eleven and three-quarter inches" for non-English people, or 273.685 cm - about 2.74 metres), which is exactly the same as the 'D'. Funny, hey?

Because of the tightened strings (so as to make the lovely sounds at the right pitch!) that piano is under a tension of 45 373 lb ("lb" means pounds, from the word for weighing scales, libra) or 20 418 kg.

I hope you are under less tension.

If not, perhaps a bath would help?