<html> <body> At 08:07 AM 4/8/2004 -0400, you wrote: <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>David, The issues regarding the bridge itself, it's nature, and behavior were analyzed to the splitting of hairs.</blockquote> Mike, do you mean that all the questions have been resolved, and/or they are irrelevant?  If hair splitting was what was going on, it was in the service of separating fact from theory, and to, perhaps, eliminate disagreements stemming from divergent terminology, for example, what we mean by negative front bearing. <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite> I suspect the experts are just about totally bored out of their minds with this thread </blockquote> Who are these experts?  If THEY HAVE  been reading up until now, have THEY contributed anything to the current discussion, even to point out where in previous sources these questions have been resolved conclusively?  Are YOU bored with it?  Why?  If you think the points I've been raising are without merit, why not say so, and maybe suggest how they are so? <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>However, the strings are the other partners in termination, and their nature and behavior was only slightly touched on.   (Perhaps they hide the secret to how any string could ever climb a bridge pin). </blockquote> But you already have one expert who states that strings DO NOT climb bridge pins, and he explains why he believes this to be the case.  Yes, a careful examination of the way the strings work would be helpful.  Actually, there is probably more scientific literature on the behavior of vibrating strings then on any other part of the piano. ( Reminds me, I have to read part II of Longitudinal Vibration article.) <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite> I can only report what did happen with our D after tapping bridge pins which was an idea I got from Roger Jolly a year or so ago. It worked! -Mike </blockquote> Ron Nossman, in his own response to you, restated his theory.  It may be accurate, or only a part of the possible picture.  It does work, sometimes, for some length of time.  I think we've been trying to determine why it does. David Skolnik </body> </html>