Sy Zabrocki wrote: > In 38 years I never have experienced a broken pin. This time > represents about 32,000 tunings. Also, I have never seen a broken > agraffe. Have I just been lucky? Broken pin? Never. Broken agraffe - not broken, but sometimes you could consider very old ones a bit worn out. I usually check that if I have to put a new bass string, for instance. A broken pin must be the result of a fabrication error - it is hard to guess how it otherwise could break. Or???
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