[CAUT] False Beats and George Winston

[David Ilvedson]

I guess it hasn't seeped all the way yet...;-]

So there is enough friction between the bridge pin and the string to drag it into the bridge cap with a tiny tap?   More to think about...

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA  94044

----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "Ron Nossaman" <rnossaman at cox.net>
To: "College and University Technicians" <caut at ptg.org>
Received: 3/18/2007 1:35:56 PM
Subject: Re: [CAUT] False Beats and George Winston



>> I'm having a lot of success with tapping bridge pins with a nail set and small 
>hammer.   This morning on a CFIII with one particular string in the high treble, 
>tapping the bridge pin did not help the situation.   Lifting the string at the capo help 
>clean it up though...I lifted all 3 strings.   
>> 
>> Seeing as it is Sunday, I will now testify that I rarely seat strings at the bridge 
>anymore...The gospel according to Ron has slowly seeped in...and tapping bridge 
>pins or CA works without damaging the bridge cap.
>> 
>> David Ilvedson, RPT


>Hi David,

>One more time. Tapping bridge pins does exactly the same thing 
>as seating strings and is at least as damaging to the cap and 
>as temporary. If the screwdriver on the pin doesn't clear up 
>the beat, that ain't it, and you need to look at the capo or 
>something else. If the screwdriver test helps, CA the sucker 
>if you absolutely have to have it clean. Test first before 
>doing ANYTHING to ascertain where the noise is coming from.

>Ron N