Hi folks For a while now I've been pondering a little experiment Terry Farrell did a couple years back to try and look at how well / if a string could stay in a position of <<unseatedness>>. We've all been through the seating discussion many times... so I wont really go into it beyond asking as many of you who will take a few minutes to do the following ... Take Gooses tool and place it on unisons right close to the bridge. Check the level of the three strings. Now take a small punch and tap a couple times down on the bridge pin itself... not the string. Notice how (dramatically) actually the change in the string plane (using Gooses tool) really is. Play the unison hard.. retune it.. whatever and see that the new string plane does not noticeably change. Now take a string hook and pull the same string upwards along the bridge pin and recheck with the level tool. Again.. play hard.. retune.. etc and check the plane again to see how well the string holds itself in whatever place you leave it...within reason of course. Within reason for my 10 minutes of dinking around with this today was on the order of a window of over a half a millimeter a string could easily be moved vertically and would stay in place despite standard tuning movement and hard play. As a side... I also noticed that there seemed to be a slight improvement in sound... a more clear definition of pitch when all three strings were on exactly the same level plane. Perhaps this was a subjective <<wishfull thinking>> thing on my part projected on the real situation... but I really did get the feeling that flimmering of pitch was significantly reduced when I got all strings nicely seated and on the same plane.... Why this might have an effect... ??.. more stuff for ponderment. Cheers RicB
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