> I don't know if it's the backscale or not.... I'm sure nobody does when it comes right down to it. But there are plenty of rather straight forward ways of looking closer at things for the curious. For example... lower tension on a string say... 200 cents and then fasten a small vice grips on to the string right at the aft bridge pin. Then bring the string back up to tension. Note the pitch with your ETD, and then give the note a few solid test blows... good hard ones. Note any difference. Then release the vice-gripes from the string. And check out what happens. There is plenty of room for experiementation with such things that can bring you new insights. I think its important to try and find answers to such questions as they pop up in our experiences on our own. And, I think far to often, mystersious phenonmena akin to the "circle of sound" that seem flourish so readily, get started because we do not bother to use our own persepectives and experimentations to check out some new (or old) claim.... but simply sit passively by and except this or another presumed expertise and authority. Experiment with the thing... you never know what you might bump into ! Cheers RicB -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. UiB, Bergen, Norway mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html http://www.hf.uib.no/grieg/personer/cv_RB.html
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