Hi Calin Dont misunderstand me. I'm not directly disputing anything in your paper. I do have a few questions about some things for sure. But thats simply because this is unknown stuff to me. And because there is no reference to any material to back up the statements you present as fact. My comments have primarilly been directed to the form of your paper. You write in the authoritive format. When you do this you are obliged to reference by way of footnotes any central statements of fact that your reasoning and conclusions are drawn on. Thats just standard essay stuff. If you dont... readers will just wonder where / if you can substantiate these claims and the whole thing gets drawn into question. If you dont have any documentation / measurements / etc... then its easy to reword so as to make it clear that all this is based on assumptions that need substantiating but that you feel you have good reason to believe. You more or less say this in your paragraph below. But tho you say you are not trying to present this as scientifically demonstrated... you do indeed write in the authorative form. As I said... it is interesting. Tho I am unconvinced that you can show your conclusions to be true, I am at the same time not willing or able to say they are not. Cheers RicB Ric, All the things I wrote are based on 3 things: my reasoning of what can go on with such s device, what I heard in pianos with and without bridge agraffes, my own experiments with string terminations. So the whole article represents my opinion. It is not based on the research of others because I am not aware of such research. Everybody is free to from his/her own opinion about what I say, I'm not trying to present it as scientifically demonstrated, just as something that seems quite sensible and logical. I invite anybody who has such data or did such research to tell us where it can be found. Read below:
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