Bridge caps

[Don]

Hi Ron,

So if humidity *is* finally balanced properly would you then consider
tapping strings down on the bridge?

At 11:56 AM 04/03/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>>Hi Ron, 
>>          Your observations give an excellent eplaination of why there is a
>>need to seat strings periodically on performance piano's. 
>
>Not as far as I'm concerned. I don't advocate seating strings with tuning.
>I consider it to be abusive to the bridge. If it's absolutely imperative
>the piano be perfect, it seems only reasonable to expect the environment to
>be just as perfect so the bridge won't move in the first place. Why is it
>expected of the tuner to come up with some magic way of making years of
>climatic abuse miraculously disappear long enough to get through a
>performance, and why would the tuner do something to the long term
>detriment of the instrument to support the illusion that everything is
>under control? Sorry, count me out on that one.
>Ron N


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