Yeah, in summary, he says, It's dirty work, but someone's got to do it....... Chapter 11 is entitled Setting the Pin. It starts on page 439 and finishes on page 480. I'm not sure that it's possible to summarise, but perhaps this quote from near the start of the chapter may be useful: "The discussion set out here on setting the pin may seem so detailed as to be daunting at first sight. The apparent complexity arises only because the dynamics of pin-setting are decribed here in unusual technical detail and depth. A practical and intuitive understanding of these dynamics are usually learnt from many years of tuning experience. The essence of what is described will therefore already be familiar to expert tuners at a practical and intuitive level, at the very least as subconscious knowledge gleaned from practical experience. "Does one need to understand the technical details? If you are a theorist you will probably want to. If you are a practical tuner you can probably skip over them if you wish, and still learn to set the pin from guided experience. However, if you quite literally want to "know what you are doing", then naturally, looking at the technuical details can be enlightening." Er...hope that helps...... David. "David, Could you summarize for us what Capleton has to say about setting the pin (since, if memory serves, that is the context in which this book was most recently brought up)? Thanks, Alan Eder"
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