false beats from ?? -...

[Ron Nossaman]

> Not much has been written lately, re. the fact that more times than not, 
> false beats have been evident when the wire seems
> to be "not" in contact with the bridge. That is why I will tap the wire 
> to have it make conract. 

It's been written about and explained in detail so many times 
already, the fact that it hasn't been explained yet again recently 
doesn't change all the other times it was. There are weeks worth of 
it in the archives. Last I heard, there were a number of people who 
were going out in the world with feeler gages to prove me wrong, and 
show us that strings really do climb bridge pins, but we haven't 
heard back from any of them with their flood of corroborating 
evidence. Perhaps it's because they haven't found that evidence 
because pins really don't climb bridge pins, and the string is 
always in contact with the bridge cap, though often not at the very 
edge of the notch where cyclic humidity swings have crushed the cap.



>It's always in contact with
> the pin, even when in an elvated position..  I have seated the string, 
> tapped the pin, and still had a false beat.  

So have I, which is why I started looking into the primary mechanism 
causing the beats. Did you try the screwdriver on the pin test at 
any time in the process to try to isolate the source of the beat?


>Tightened the
> coils sometimes, to get a different result. None of these things seemed 
> conclusive.  

Tightened the coil to fix false beats? I'm not surprised it was 
inconclusive. Maybe if you'd oiled the casters too... The point 
being that a false beat (whichever flavor of noise is described as 
such) is most likely coming from the speaking parts of the system.


>Changing wire was one of the best ways
> to improve the problem,  . . not always.   Whose nose .
> 
> Carl / Winnipeg

Not in my experience. Making the bridge pin solid in the surface of 
the cap has by far the best track record for me.
Ron N