Yea of course. In engineering a pin is a generic word to describe a type of fastener. A pin can be a piece of steel two feet long a weighing half a tonne. If you didn’t hear that drop onto a ships deck you must be deaf.
Yes, back in the 80's was experimenting with music a bit and got to try out some microphones and hooking them up to an amp got to see how sensitive they were, and that was one item we tried.