> IMHO...If I tap a string on a bridge (I tap in front of the bridge pin in the speaking length) and it moves down...how can it have not un-seated from the bridge? > > David Ilvedson, RPT Extremely heavy, seemingly infinitely repeated sigh - because the notch edge has been crushed by the bridge expanding with humidity increase, pushing the string up the pin against both the friction of side bearing, and pin slant. This has been gone over on list more times than I have fingers and toes to count, and way past my personal tolerance, in excruciating detail. If you don't get it by now, please, get the biggest hammer you can lift, and seat those strings as energetically as you possibly can. Use both hands. Drive them in really deep, and rest assured in the belief that you have rendered a miracle and corrected a situation that isn't demonstrably physically possible in the first place. You have my blessing. Over and out. Ron N
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