[pianotech] SSM evaluation

[Ron Nossaman]

Gene Nelson wrote:
  >     Paul
>      
>     I cannot tell from one measurement zeroed from the spl.
>     However, on a piano that is strung, how useful is this information?
>     What can be done about where the bearing is or is not or how the top
>     of the bridge is shaped without surgery?
>     Possibly if bearing were adjustable it would be useful to know
>     component bearing? What could be done with the information?
>     Gene

Gene,
In the case you mentioned, component downbearing measurements 
won't change the reality of the -0.8° net bearing in the 
killer octave.
Ron N