Was Voicing M&H BB/ Now tuned duplexes

[Ron Nossaman]

>Greetings, 
>     It is also worth mentioning that different styles of "setting the pin" 
>will cause signifcant differences in the string tension of the front duplex.  
>When the tension in the topstring is so variable, how can one expect it to be 
>tunable? 
>Regards, 
>Ed Foote 

One (possibly two) should also mention that with the friction presented to
the strings by the bridge pins, the likelihood of string tensions above and
below the bridge being equal, or remaining at the same tensions (relative
to the speaking lengths) at which they were tuned, is considerably less
than in the front duplex. That's regardless of hammer technique.
Ron N