Bridge caps

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In a message dated 4/2/2001 11:22:44 PM Central Daylight Time, 
pianobuilders@olynet.com writes:

<< deally the string should contact both the bridge cap
 surface and the bridge pin. That is the way they exist in real life and that
 is the way they should be tested. >>
In order only to determine whether and how much energy transfer as a 
component ofthe whole system is the point,but the practical realityis that 
the twocomponents are so closely coupled that measurement of the one without 
the other might (might) be meaningless.

Thanks for all of the time you put into this note, Del. PR-J