>Hi Ron, > >Here's a thought... > >On some pianos the bridge pins stick up above the bridge far enough that >they could be tapped into the bridge another 1/32" - 1/16" bringing the >string into contact with heretofore unscathed bridge pin surface. (Some >wouldn't be high enough, but perhaps it may be an option to a few. It would >certainly be a lot less work.) :-) > >Brian Trout True, but that's just half of the "fix". The same shrink/swell cycles (along with the playing mileage) that scrubbed the track in the bridge pins also mashed the top of the bridge under the string so that the bridge top under the string is no longer flat. to flatten the bridge top and regain the clean string termination against the bridge cap at the edge of the notch, as well as at the pin, you've gotta pull the pins and plane (or whatever) the bridge top flat again. Tapping bridge pins down seems to me to be a better option than tapping strings down on bridges to minimize wild strings in the killer octave (the only place I've found either option to be even nominally effective), but it's a crude and temporary expedient rather than a real fix in my opinion, since it addresses the symptom rather than the cause. Incidentally, the scrub track on a bridge pin seems to be in the .015 - .025 range in height, by my measurement, so you wouldn't have to drive the bridge pin very far to get a fresh string contact surface. Does this make any sense at all? Ron
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