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Ron writes:
>How can a longer support area for a given load, on a given
>footprint width, result in accelerated wear of the support? This is contrary
>to logic as I know it. How does this work? Let's backtrack and plug a few
>holes before we hotly dispute anything else, what do you say?  

    I have the same questions here as Ron does.  Plus a few other things. 
Inre the "damping" differences between the materials: 
   When there is, in a vibrating system, something that damps as profoundly 
as the soundboard,  I don't know that the plate's contribution will make a 
lot of difference in the damping.  It would seem more important that the 
plate be designed so that it has no audible resonant frequency (all 
structures have one).  Lack of audible resonant period shouldn't be confused 
with damping, imho. 
    The increase in radius of the V-bar doesn't seem to cause any accelerated 
wear, in my experience.  The heaviest grooving I have seen has been on the 
smallest radii. 
     I also question whether the longitudinal waves that occur in a vibrating 
string cause the string to move back and forth over the v-bar, since in so 
doing, the tension would equalize ,and I know that I leave more tension in 
the top string than in the speaking length, and that this tension 
differential remains until the next time I move the pin.  Is that not where 
stability comes from?  
    Ron has some questions here that I would like to see definitively 
answered, too. 
Regards, 
Ed Foote