I was thinking about this a bit more tonight while doing some tuning. (One thing about tunings, at least the normal ones,... you have time to think about stuff... It occurred to me that in order for the tuning pin bushing to cause the pinblock to be pulled away from the flange, it would have to be free to rotate in such a direction to bring that about. In effect, the forces applied by the strings to the tuning pins to the pinblock would need to effectively pull the flange side of the pinblock down towards the action in order for there to be any rotation whatsoever. Obviously, with a pinblock secured tightly to the plate, this ain't a gonna happen. So I have to wonder if blaming the tuning pin bushing for tuning stability problems isn't faulty logic to begin with?? (A picture would be worth a thousand words, but I'm too tired to type that long!) :-) KnowwhatImean?? :-) Brian Trout Quarryville, PA btrout@desupernet.net
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