plate reaction was Re: Pitch Raising to A440.......Or Not?

[Ron Nossaman]

>I don't think the plate moves *much* but I do think the wood may do so. If
>you check A4 with a vtd just after a pitch correction--and then check again
>in 5 minutes, and then again in 1/2 you will get different pitch level. The
>pitch will not necessarily be lower. 

Seems to me that could just as easily, and more likely to my mind, be
unequal segment tensions with the string slowly moving at the bearing point
between sections.


Ron N