Same reason we continue to call the tool we use to turn those pegs... uh, pins... a tuning hammer. Or a fallboard a fallboard, when falling is one thing we most decidedly don't want it to do (especially while playing).
Albert
--- On Fri, 5/15/09, Ron Nossaman <rnossaman at cox.net> wrote:
From: Ron Nossaman <rnossaman at cox.net>
Subject: [CAUT] nomenclature
To: caut at ptg.org, "Pianotech" <Pianotech at ptg.org>
Received: Friday, May 15, 2009, 1:35 PM
As the semantics uh, discussions wind down on the caut list, and looking at the Toon yer own piano text on the web side Jim posted, I wonder. If technically inaccurate and misleading but widely used nomenclature is defended so vigorously on a technical list, why don't we call tuning pins pegs (or do we?)? Pretty much everyone else out there does, and it's not an inaccurate description. Just wondering.
Under every rock, another mystery.
Ron N
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