On Jan 5, 2011, at 9:33 AM, Paul T Williams wrote: > Just a thought, but perhaps the pins on the nut are a little rusty > and are not allowing the wire to render? But there again, I would > think that the wire would then break at the pin, or am I not > thinking in the right direction? Actually it would still break at the pin, when tuning. The friction would cause a build up of tension in the segment between nut and pin. Another thought is that the wire was over stretched by one or more humidity incidents, causing pitch to go way high (100 cents is common for harpsichords with a 50% or more rise in RH), weakening it and making it more prone to break. Regards, Fred Sturm fssturm at unm.edu http://www.createculture.org/profile/FredSturm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20110105/46e24565/attachment.htm>
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