Seasonal pitch change:

Ron Nossaman rnossaman at cox.net
Sat Mar 10 10:34:11 MST 2007


:
> *All this time, I was thinking that the bass change was less, because 
> those strings were on the bass bridge.*
> *The bass bridge, being at the edge of the soundboard, didn't change as 
> much with the addition/subtraction of moisture, as the other bridge 
> closer to the centre.*
> *I guess I was oversimplifying.*
> *Too bad, I was satisfied all these years, and explained it to my 
> customers, that way.*
> John M. Ross


You still can, if it's more convenient. They won't know the 
difference either way. I just tell mine it's a string scale 
design problem and that satisfies most of them.
Ron N


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