>That being said, the vast amount of experience that supports the idea that >bridge pin seating can offer some aid in cleaning up some of the general noise >is not something I have not been able to disregard, especially since my own >experience bears it out. What should be said tho is that any string seating >should be done with care. You dont want to dent the bridge top in the >process. A >very gentle tap is all thats needed, and if that doenst help any falseness >then >your problem is elsewhere. > >RicB The same vast amount of experience indicates the same of seating strings. For a string at 20° angle side bearing on a bridge pin, and about 160# tension, the frictional drag between string and pin as over 14#. Tapping the pin is the equivalent of setting a 14# weight on the string at the very edge of the notch and hitting it with a hammer. The only time it does anything that direct string seating doesn't is when the pin is severely grooved. Ron N
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