On Apr 19, 2007, at 1:08 PM, Fred Sturm wrote: > Hi Jeff, > I don't get your question. You seem to be saying two opposite > things. Wire fatigue is caused by bending and re-bending at a > single point, not wearing out from abrasion. If abrasion causes > string breakage, then a harder capo might contribute. Abrasion is > not wire fatigue. But if it is flexing at the bearing point that > causes breakage, then hardness doesn't enter into it. Flexing does > cause wire fatigue. > Regards, > Fred Sturm ....and I also didn't finish reading your earlier post before I posted this reply to some excerpts from it. My bad. Yes, that makes sense. It would seem plausible to me, though, that abrasion would also be a contributing factor IF wire does break sooner on a harder capo. The combination of the two... Jeff Tanner, RPT University of South Carolina -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/caut.php/attachments/20070419/b5f24d64/attachment.html
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