Bridge Pins & Nega Bearing

[Andrew and Rebeca Anderson]

I would submit that the "click" we hear when "string-seating" has 
more to do with rendering speaking length tension past the bridge 
into the  under-tensioned rear duplex than it does with a string 
being above the bridge.  I have found strings above the bridge in a 
nasty upright, visibly so on one side of a rolled bridge.  I have not 
yet found strings that needed "seating" on a grand.  I do piano 
voicing where I tighten curves leading to and from the bridge a 
little and I do encounter clicks in neglected pianos where the 
strings render through the bridge.

Andrew Anderson


>Probably because the subject has been discussed far past the point 
>that everyone's thoroughly sick of it. At the end of the last of 
>what seems like fifty rounds, the string seating crowd swarmed out 
>into the world en mass yelling KILL KILL with fire in their eyes and 
>feeler gages in hand to prove that strings spontaneously climb up 
>bridge pins against all known physics. The avalanche of reports of 
>rampant bridge pin climbing strings still is yet to manifest, but we 
>collectively remain ever faithful to the notion. With few exceptions.
>
>Ron N