Ron, String stretch? Graeme Harvey New Plymouth New Zealand You wrote..... >The graph will show least pitch drop at the struts, and the most half way >between. I haven't tried this myself, but I have no reason to doubt the >reports of those who have, and my math on soundboard deflection changes >don't account for anywhere near the drop we actually see in practice. Some >of this drop may be strings rendering through the bridge too, but that >should be a fairly uniform progression from one end of the scale to the >other, with no anomalies at the struts. There isn't much left besides plate >compression that will account for it.
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