> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-caut@ptg.org [mailto:owner-caut@ptg.org]On Behalf Of Ron > Nossaman > Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 8:29 AM > To: caut@ptg.org > Subject: Re: tapping strings > > >I was also under the impression that your take was that the > string isnt pushed > >up the bridge pin at all to begin with. Correct ? > >-- > >Richard Brekne > > No. The expanding bridge pushes the string up the pin. > > Ron N So, the pin stays put in the base of the bridge while the expanding wood of the cap (alone) advances upward, pushing the string ahead of it? I thought quarter-sawn wood tended to expand laterally more so than vertically. (Your earlier figures seem to say otherwise....) I'm gettin' quite the education, here! I hope the professor doesn't get impatient..... :-) R. Torrella
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