{"id":781,"date":"2015-09-23T15:41:10","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T19:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/?p=781"},"modified":"2015-11-02T13:39:48","modified_gmt":"2015-11-02T18:39:48","slug":"check-spoke-tension-by-ear-when-building-a-wheel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/23\/check-spoke-tension-by-ear-when-building-a-wheel\/","title":{"rendered":"Check spoke tension by ear when building a wheel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/spoke-pitch.html\">Check the level of spoke tension by ear<\/a> &#8212; unless you are tone deaf, a musical pitch reference (pitch pipe, tuning fork, smartphone app etc.) is all you need to tell whether you have brought spokes up to the appropriate level of tension when building a wheel. It&#8217;s faster than using a tensiometer!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check the level of spoke tension by ear &#8212; unless you are tone deaf, a musical pitch reference (pitch pipe, tuning fork, smartphone app etc.) is all you need to tell whether you have brought spokes up to the appropriate level of tension when building a wheel. It&#8217;s faster than using a tensiometer!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[5,212,215,213,11,218,40,41,43,42,211,260,400,399,177,220],"class_list":["post-781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-pages","tag-bicycle","tag-cross","tag-e-bike","tag-electric-bike","tag-hub","tag-rim","tag-sheldon","tag-sheldon-brown","tag-sheldonbrown","tag-sheldonbrown-com","tag-spoke","tag-spoking","tag-tensiometer","tag-tension","tag-wheel","tag-wheelbuilding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=781"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":785,"href":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions\/785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sheldonbrown.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}