At 13:11 -0500 22/5/09, Berley Firmin II wrote: >What would you call these loops, Single German Eyes, NOT loops. And extremely messy ones at that. >and how would I make them?! When will people on this list stop referring to eyes as loops?! A loop is the U shape that the string makes when two strings share one hitchpin. An eye is what you have when a single string has its own hitchpin. Some pianos have loops throughout with an odd eye or two at breaks in the scale; some pianos have all eyes; and some pianos have a loop and an eye for each trichord unison. If you call eyes loops, then you have no way to distinguish loops from eyes without a whole load of verbiage. That's why we have proper terminology. JD
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