In a message dated 11/15/2010 4:04:04 P.M. Central Standard Time, dmannino at kawaius.com writes: I never really cared for them – the strings can get more sticky (ping-ping-ping) making tuning more difficult, and the tone was more thin and bright, at least to my ear. There is that, and the wear on the string at the termination is also a potential problem, although I don't know of any experimental data for that. As Alan described, there was a steel pin inserted across at the top of the holes, creating a very hard and precisely profiled string bearing surface. And based on our experiments here, so far, it is not a matter of the profile, which is actually very nice, but the material of the termination. P -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20101115/357c525e/attachment.htm>
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