----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon Page" <jonpage2001@attbi.com> To: <caut@ptg.org> Sent: April 05, 2002 1:50 PM Subject: RE: tapping strings > At 03:11 PM 4/5/2002 -0500, you wrote: > >Another fly in the ointment......when wood expands in high humidity, don't > >holes get bigger? > > Holes get smaller in high humidity. Wood expands, not holes (no wood), > so the wood expands into the hole or crushes around a tuning pin or bridge pin. Actually, holes in wood get larger during periods of high humidity. Unless, of course the wood is constrained in some manner. Del
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