tapping strings

[Ron Torrella]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-caut@ptg.org [mailto:owner-caut@ptg.org]On Behalf Of Ron
> Nossaman
> Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 8:29 AM
> To: caut@ptg.org
> Subject: Re: tapping strings
>
> >I was also under the impression that your take was that the
> string isnt pushed
> >up the bridge pin at all to begin with. Correct ?
> >--
> >Richard Brekne
>
> No. The expanding bridge pushes the string up the pin.
>
> Ron N

So, the pin stays put in the base of the bridge while the expanding wood of
the cap (alone) advances upward, pushing the string ahead of it? I thought
quarter-sawn wood tended to expand laterally more so than vertically. (Your
earlier figures seem to say otherwise....) I'm gettin' quite the education,
here! I hope the professor doesn't get impatient..... :-)

R. Torrella