Bent Tuning Pins

Avery Todd avery@ev1.net
Tue, 06 Aug 2002 19:28:26 -0500


>I don't know what this guy does, but he actually, sometimes severely, 
>bends tuning
>pins just in the tuning process. Springing, or flagpoling a pin a little 
>to find
>the string equilibrium point is normal. Bending the pin past it's plastic
>deformation limit is severely abnormal.
>
>Ron N

Ron,

How is this physically possible? It's not like they were made out of some
easily bendable material.

Avery




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