At 11:27 PM -0600 3/28/03, Ron Nossaman wrote: >Roughly, the sine of the angle times the string tension will get you >in the ball park. At the 10° or so string offset angle on bridges, >it's not exact, but close enough to not tell you anything useful in >this case. Good. I get real nervous when some bit of knowledge is going to tell me something useful. So I keep a close watch when it even looks like it's thinking about telling me something useful. (Now was that really a useful observation?) I'd guess that the extra pressure exerted on the side of the bridge pin is not significant. So Alan, when you're explaining these sounds to the lady of the house, is this what you call then, or do you use the conventional "false beats"? Bill Ballard RPT NH Chapter, P.T.G. "A jester unemployed is nobody's fool." ...........Danny Kaye, in "The Court Jester" +++++++++++++++++++++
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