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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In the pianoforte and harp, a steel pin driven into the wrest-block or frame, around which one end of a string is wound, and by turning which the string may be tuned; a tuning-pin.
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The strings passing through holes bored through the little bridges, called agraffes, or studs, turned upward toward the wrest-pin.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 Various
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