tapping strings

[Ron Nossaman]

>Ron-
>Well...maybe we should just be whackin' hard on the string in the center of
>the bridge...not to seat the string, but to make a groove in the center of
>the bridge to connect the expansion induced grooves at the edges, which
>would now allow the string to seat itself.
>Ed

Ed,
I'd thought of that, and mentioned it in last year's discussion. I'll
probably try it some year on a bridge that's about to be replaced, but I
don't think I'd suggest it seriously just yet.

Ron N