Samick/Kohler Campbell stability

[EHILBERT@midd.middlebury.edu]

Mitch,
      There may well be more reasons for the individually looped strings
versus those which go down and back up to a second pin, but here are two
that come to mind immediatly:
1) If a dramatic change in tension is made on one string, it will not pass
around the hitch pin into the speaking length of the next string on
individually looped strings.  (Although that would be of greater benefit to the
technician in the field then to the factory so it seems unlikely that they woulddo it for that
reason.)
2) If a string breaks, it would only remove one string from one unison, rather
than potentially two from one unison or a string in two adjacent unisons.
(Again, that would be of greater benefit to the
technician in the field then to the factory so it seems unlikely that they would
do it for that reason.)
      No doubt someone can come up with other better reasons.  As for the
string that goes down and up again, speed in stringing is much faster.
Ed Hilbert