You're referring to the shape created between the capo and the speaking length bridge pins, and you are speaking of a lateral shift rather than vertical, correct? If that was all that was involved, your theory makes sense. But from the non speaking length pins to the hitch pins, wouldn't the reverse be created, somewhat cancelling it out? The overall tension will eventually equal back out after a shift, right? How would such changes in tension not also somehow affect the center string, it being also either shared by the left or right unison? Just thinking with you. Tanner ----- Original Message ----- From: Ed Sutton To: caut at ptg.org Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 12:40 PM Subject: Re: [CAUT] Detuning phenomenon; was: How long to stabilize?? Would a small shift of the bridge to one side effect the left string more than the right, since the strings are not perpendicular to the line of the bridge pins? The outer strings create a long trapezoid, thus a shift of position would increase the tension on one and decrease it on the other. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut_ptg.org/attachments/20090219/ae323117/attachment.html>
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