Piano wire tensile strength

[Avery Todd]

I'd always heard/thought that twisting was to prevent buzzing from
windings coming loose. But what do I know? :-)

Avery

At 04:45 PM 6/25/05, you wrote:
>Hi Del,
>
>If this is actually works, I doubt that it has
>anything to do with metallurgy.  The only thing that I
>can think of is that a twisted wire has some force
>vectors that are not aligned with the axis of the
>wire.  This may reduce the axial component of the
>tension.  In essence, you would get up to the required
>pitch with a smaller axial force vector, so it would
>appear that the wire can be stretched further before
>it breaks.  Plausible???
>
>Best regards,
>
>Vladan
>
>
>
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