Hi folks. Here's one that the loose pin gang is going to have a hard time explaining. Today I checked out an idea I had this past week and found out that you can actually influence...even stop the false beat of one string in a unison by exerting pressure on the bridge pin of its neighbor. I was actually not 100 % surprised at finding this was possible, tho I had really rather expected to find it a bit more difficult to influence a false beat this way then it was. Whether it was a combination of side pressure on the pin and downwards pressure on the bridge itself I am not sure of yet as the experiment today was quite simple. That said... it showed clearly that you could silence the false beat by exerting pressure elstewheres then on the offending strings bridge pin... clearly demonstrating the independance of the false beat with the coinciding bridge pin. The pressure require to silence the beat was a bit more then if I exerted pressure on the pin of the offending string itself, but not all that much more. Otherwise the effect was quite the same... a slowing of the beat rate with an increase in pressure until pressure was sufficient to result in a beatless state. Cheers RicB
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