Hi Fred, I'm coming in late on this but Jim Ellis speaks of the "friction coefficient" (I hope that is the term he used) between different types of metals. In Europe, especially with historical instruments and such, they use brass bridge pins. Jurgen Guering sells them. Juan Mas Cabre swears by them for his Pure Sound Wire (Stainless steel). Maybe Jim could enlighten us? Or at least someone smarter than me could better understand this metallurgic relationship as Jim explains it. Regards, Jim Busby ________________________________ From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Fred Sturm Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 2:25 PM To: College and University Technicians Subject: Re: [CAUT] restrung D On Apr 16, 2007, at 1:37 PM, RicB wrote: I dont think you are going to get around the problem of grooving without causing a new problem of string breakage... Hi Ric, Why would there be more string breakage due to a string going around harder rather than softer metal bridge pins? Regards, Fred Sturm University of New Mexico fssturm at unm.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/20070418/ba5755e7/attachment.html
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