<HTML>In a message dated 4/4/02 6:22:24 AM Central Standard Time, rontorrella@yahoo.com writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">We're talking about tapping strings and crushing the front edge of the bridge -- isn't this happening, to some degree anyhow, when the piano's played? I think it's akin to trying to keep a piano in tune or a child seated for extended periods of time. It's just a fact of life that it ain't gonna happen. And neither will strings remain seated on the bridge. They get too excited and need to be re-settled. </BLOCKQUOTE> It is so interesting that a simple question has resulted in such a diverse answer. On the one extreme is the notion that tapping is not only not needed, but actually bad, and the other notion, which states that it is needed and should be done. While I would welcome the thought that it is not needed, I still have not read the answer to my basic question: how often should strings be tapped, or seated, on the bridge? Wim</HTML>