Hi Richard, You have effectively increased the mass and therefore the moment of inertia of the bridge pin. I would be very tempted to try a drop of thin CA glue on the pins--even if they appear to be tight. At 06:38 PM 09/01/2000 +0200, you wrote: >Hi guys and gals.... > >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. Regards, Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T. Tuner for the Saskatchewan Centre of the Arts drose@dlcwest.com http://donrose.htmlplanet.com/ 3004 Grant Rd. REGINA, SK S4S 5G7 306-352-3620 or 1-888-29t-uner
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