Oh you can bend them allright. The average tuning lever certainly gives you enough leverage. Take a new one and drill a hole in the closest telephone pole and screw it in, then give it your best shot... you will bend it easily enough me thinks. RicB Avery Todd wrote: > > >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. > > > > > How is this physically possible? It's not like they were made out of some > easily bendable material. > > Avery
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