Hello Ric! You wrote: > > "After years of experimentation, Wayne Stuart developed a special > clamp to keep the vibrations vertical. Eager to discover if his > invention was a fluke or could be scientifically proven he called in > the expertise of Robert Anderssen from the Australian science > agency, CSIRO." ... > "Those notes are more harmonious because the string is kept > vibrating vertically and the energy in the vibrations is dissipated > more slowly and that's what the musicians call sustain and volume." > The "vertical vibration claim doesn't seem very plausible to me (but i don't have any counter-arguments). I just think the way a bridge agraffe can improve sustain is just by virtue of its greater hardness (and weight), compared to a conventional bridge pin, which seems to be a pretty flexible contraption. Regards, Calin Tantareanu ---------------------------------------------------- http://calin.1L.com ----------------------------------------------------
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