Hi guys and gals.... Had an interesting experience today on a Petrof console. This this was plagued with some really nasty false beats in the treble (actually all over the place, but especially in the treble). By acident I noticed something today I have never run into before. Placing a straight slot screwdriver between two bridge pins, and wedging one of them over so as to slightly increase the sideways pressure on the string totally eliminated the false beats. I thought maybe this had something to do with the screwdriver coming in contact with two bridge pins, so I tried just pushing sideways a bit on one pin and the same thing. Repeated this on about 15 strings with false beats and the same thing every time. We are not talking just a reduction of the false beatings intensity.. It out and out disapeared. Course it comes back when you release the pressure... but this got me scratching my head. What is this all about ??... What does the type of material used in bridge pins have to do with all of this, or for that matterer angle at which the pin is inserted. Anybody run into this before, and if so what practical use is it ?? -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. Bergen, Norway
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