Piano wire tensile strength

[PAULREVENKOJONES@aol.com]

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In a message dated 6/26/2005 3:23:53 PM Central Standard Time, 
741662027@theshusters.org writes:

> Are you saying that any half turn (180 degrees) causes some effect at the 
> bridge that any whole turn (360) will not cause?
> 

After the string is on the piano for any period of time so that the "bend" in 
the wire around the bridge pins has "set" (for lack of better language), if 
you were to give the wire a half turn only, it would bend the wire against 
itself. Does that help, or did I make it worse?

P R-J

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