Jude - One of those times where a picture (diagram) would illuminate. While I keep trying, is "negative pin angle" leaning towards the agraffe? And what do you mean by >comparing "flag pole range" to "non-flag pole range."? David Skolnik At 06:37 AM 10/8/2009, you wrote: > Fair enough, EXCEPT there is the occasional situation in the low > tenor and bass where the agraffe to tuning pin string length is so > short that you either >need an especially high front bearing (making it even more difficult >to thread the wire up and over), more than less coils (my late >entrance to this thread) a shorter pin height than the neighbors, or >a negative pin angle to allow the last winding to be tight up against the rest. > > As for pin depth, it is my experience that the deeper the pin > the greater the torque. I would be interested to hear others' > experience with this. Perhaps my perception was simply comparing > "flag pole range" to "non-flag pole range." > > Jude > > ---
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