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Originally Posted by LP26
Bridge pins make the least, if any difference in tone. Folks who sell them will tell you otherwise, but the fact is that a bridge pin change is largely cosmetic.
The saddle makes the biggest difference, a significant one. The nut only provides a tonal change to open strings.
“You pays your money and you takes your chances.”
There are a lot of snake oil salesmen out there.
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+1 on that. There's not a whole lot of vibration going on between the saddle and the pins to make any difference. Depending on the type of bone pins, the only advantage over wood I can possible see is durrability.
And to extend the thought a bit, I would say brass pins have a better chance of having an audible difference than bone, since the mass is much greater.
Bel isi,
-kyle