stretching wire -- an anecdotal analysis

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Fri Apr 18 20:49:08 MDT 2008


 Kurt asks:
<< Granted, this sounds reasonable, but why should such tightening of the 
slack

in the coil happen slowly? What is the physical mechanism that causes this

type of pitch drop to be time release? >>

I assume it is the friction around the tuning pin which is slowly allowing 
the stress in the wire to overcome it.  
Anybody got any other ideas? 



Ed Foote RPT 
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