<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Mar 18, 2007, at 7:26 PM, Ron Nossaman wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Whether the pin is at the bottom of the hole or not makes no difference acoustically, though that's the illusion and everyone's conclusion when bottoming pins clears up a beat.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>Hi Ron,</DIV><DIV>Have you been able to prove this? or is it educated speculation? It certainly seems that the pin needs to be anchored to help avoid wallowing out the hole. Since the wood is softer than the pin, the pin would be the more stable of the two simultaneous terminations, unless it is flagpoling around because it isn't anchored in the hole.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>But that is definitely hypothesis. I have noticed that if the hole has been drilled too deep (or the pin cut too short) and the pin can't make contact, the falseness will not be eliminated.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Jeff</DIV><BR><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>Jeff Tanner, RPT</DIV><DIV>University of South Carolina</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>