False Beats ??

[Larry J. Messerly]

Bridge pins may be loose in the wood.  Try gently tapping them in deeper.
Larry Messerly, RPT
Prescott/Phoenix

On Fri, 01 Sep 2000 18:38:49 +0200 Richard Brekne
<Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no> writes:
> 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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> 
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