Newish D with issues.

[Susan Kline]

Hello, Andrew

I don't go for aggressive string levelling either, just a minimal amount if 
I notice falseness in the sound. I don't like kinks in wire. For that 
matter, I don't like aggressively seating the strings at the bridge either. 
If it drives the wire down so that the contact point is in front of the 
bridge pin, it has caused a problem, not solved one. All this yanking and 
banging on wire, pulling it across bearings, jamming it into bridges, sort 
of says "premature aging" to me. If I do anything at the bridge, it's more 
likely giving a little tap on the top of the front bridge pin and/or a drop 
of CA where it enters the wood. I do use firm blows in tuning ...

JMHO ...

Susan

At 03:53 PM 8/5/2005 -0500, you wrote:
>Susan,
>I didn't do any string leveling.  I had my hands full for the time 
>allotted.  It seems to have been levelled aggressively, which, come to 
>think of it, is where the problem was.  With the pitch correction, I had 
>pulled the bend over the capo a bit.  Not enough to clear it 
>probably.  Mind you, pulling treble strings 44cents up plus 34% overpull 
>usually does give you a few extra string noises until things stabilize.
>
>The piano is new and the humidity is high so I don't think the bridge pins 
>were loose.  The tuning pins sure weren't.
>
>Andrew