Let me see if I'm clear on this...the front edge of the notch has been crushed by humidity increases and decreases on this brand new Yamaha grand piano. That is why when I tap the string it drops? SIGH... David Ilvedson, RPT Pacifica, CA 94044 ----- Original message ---------------------------------------- From: "Ron Nossaman" <rnossaman at cox.net> To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org> Received: 9/7/2006 8:39:31 PM Subject: Re: Bridge Seating (was Re: Where to notch a bridge,& relative effects ????? (Advice sought) >> 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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