George F Emerson wrote: >Although some insist that it is > impossible for the string to ride up on the bridge pins, I have seen it > and measured it. I am that some that insist it doesn't happen without some aberrant condition like near vertical bridge pins and negative bearing. A number of folks have claimed to have measured strings up bridge pins, but no one has shared the method other than "I tapped the string, and it moved down". This is accounted for by the rounded down string track observable on old bridge caps. How exactly did you measure and observe this? Ron N
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