False Beats ??

[Don]

Hi Richard,

You have effectively increased the mass and therefore the moment of inertia
of the bridge pin. I would be very tempted to try a drop of thin CA glue on
the pins--even if they appear to be tight.

At 06:38 PM 09/01/2000 +0200, you wrote:
>Hi guys and gals....
>
>Placing a straight slot screwdriver between two bridge pins, and wedging
>one of them over so as to slightly increase the sideways pressure on the
>string totally eliminated the false beats. I thought maybe this had
>something to do with the screwdriver coming in contact with two bridge
>pins, so I tried just pushing sideways a bit on one pin and the same thing.
>Repeated this on about 15 strings with false beats and the same thing every
>time. We are not talking just a reduction of the false beatings intensity..
>It out and out disapeared. Course it comes back when you release the
>pressure... but this got me scratching my head.


Regards,
Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T.

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