>Establish a 10 - 12 degree string deflect angle. That should do it for you. > >Cheers >RicB > > > >Not necessarily. With an upright the deflection angle can often be much >less than 10ยบ and still give good speaking length termination. It depends >on the distance between the V-bar and the pressure bar. If it's close in >that angle can be very slight and it will all still work quite well. > >This is another subject for which a search of the archives might be >useful. But in general the pressure bar should be at an elevation which >renders the string length between it and the tuning pins roughly parallel >to the surface of the pinblock or plate. Whichever comes first. > >Del I don't understand why the distance between V-bar and pressure bar matters. I would think only the angle would matter, and that's independent of the distance between points defining that angle. Phil Ford
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