[pianotech] The value of this list

[J Patrick Draine]

Straying from the thread title, what were the benefits and/or deficits of
using 1/0 versus 2/0 pins? I recollect Ed Foote mentioned favoring 1/0;
what was your analysis?
Patrick Draine

On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Ron Nossaman <rnossaman at cox.net> wrote:

> On 8/7/2012 10:52 AM, Joseph Garrett wrote:
>
>  Just got my Journal. It's entire layout was based on past TT&T tips
>> derived
>> from THIS list! Hmmm?
>>
>
> And the pdf is now posted for download too. Some of the stuff goes back 20
> years. Sort of makes me wonder how many of the original contributors even
> remember ever having done it that way. I recall mentioning at a PTG meeting
> way back when that I had used 1/0 tuning pins on one small grand restring
> to see if I thought there was any particular difference, benefit or
> detriment, from 2/0. Probably fifteen years later, also at a PTG meeting,
> someone wanted to know why I typically strung with 1/0 pins! No! This sort
> of thing has happened dozens of times, and continues to happen as I learn
> from some surprise source what I wasn't aware I had ever claimed.
>
> Ah well, shift happens, so staying "current" isn't really possible, but
> there's still some good stuff there.
>
> Ron N
>
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