<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 5.50.4616.200" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hum,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Interesting idea.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I had always thought it was related to = the non use of stringing braid on the waste ends, so that the piano would seem to = have more power.    </FONT></DIV> <DIV>>Why doesn't settling the strings to the bridge and v bar get = out any of the</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV>>false beats?</DIV><BR> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV><BR>Because the = false beats are coming from the soundboard/rib design. <BR><FONT face=Arial = size=2>Joe Goss</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>