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Re: Tapered Tuning Pins
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Rob Brooke <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 30 Oct 2016 08:41:08 -0400
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Martin. thanks for elucidating. I had envisioned tuning pins with a long 
taper in a tapered hole - the same principle as the pegs on a violin. 
The notion of a partial taper of only 4 mm in a cylindrical hole had 
never occurred to my engineer's mind. I guess the taper was Zuckermann's 
way of making introduction of a pin into its hole easy for the builder.

I don't much like the notion of historical pins anyway. As a builder, 
tuner and maintainer, they seem to have more disadvantages than 
advantages. Anything for historic accuracy, I suppose.

Rob

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