tapping strings

Richard Brekne Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no
Sat Apr 6 04:16 MST 2002


Delwin D Fandrich 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

Grin... here this goes round again... I love these things... Didnt Dan Manino
and T. Farrel go round with this last year relative to flanges ?...


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