[CAUT] Protek against string falseness

[Richard Brekne]

Hi

The last few months I've been experimenting a bit with using Protek on 
some old beaters I have around town to minimize the amount of falseness 
in strings.  Adding Protek to the windings of wound strings most 
definitely can affect the para inharmonicity of bass strings to the 
positive at least in the short run... that is to say at least over a 
period of some few days. Adding a few drops to the bridge pins cleans up 
several types of falseness to a very significant degree. If one adds 
liberally then at first, and especially in the 4th to 5th registers then 
a temporary and slight deadening effect to the string is experienced... 
but this quickly disappears and the end result is a cleaner and slightly 
less bright sound. Curiously in the highest notes it seems to add very 
significant amounts of clarity and apparent sustain.

None of this has been measured or subjected to any good scientific 
method or experiments... just some informal checking spurred by the use 
of other chemical additives to bridge pins that has been discussed... 
looking for convenient alternatives as it were.

Questions tho... does anyone know or care to speculate on what exactly a 
few drops of Proteck does long term to the wood of the bridge ?  And for 
that matter what longer term affects adding Protek to bass string 
windings would have on bass strings ?

Cheers and thanks
RicB