>I imagine (don't know) that those string segments still vibrate against the >braiding felt (perhaps more slowly). This seems like a waste of perfectly >good kinetic energy. If they could be made stiffer, or have more mass, >wouldn't their energy be reflected back into the speaking length, the same >way we want rims to be rigid? >-------------------- >--Cy Shuster-- Strings don't have to "vibrate" to move. Braided strings still move, as in not impeding soundboard movement, they just don't make a lot of noise. The increased sustain effect happens in the top half, and is actually coming from some un-muted back segment further down scale. I don't think the sustain of a specific string in the top section is significantly longer when the back scale isn't braided, but it seems that way as something further down keeps ringing. Making the back scale stiffer would impede soundboard movement (un-good). I don't know about mass loading. Ron N
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