>Intuitively (which is so often wrong, >especially in physics), it would seem that two strings could have the same >deflection angle, yet exert different amounts of pressure on the bridge in >the vector perpendicular to the soundboard. Who's intuition? Same angle, same string plane, same tension, same static downbearing. Resistance to soundboard movement at a given speaking length will change with back scale length, wire size, tension, bearing angle, termination type, etc, etc, etc. Ron N
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