Bridge Seating / food for thought

[Ron Nossaman]

> Capleton's paper 
> (http://www.amarilli.co.uk/academic/acoustics/false_beats.pdf) notes 
> that once the string no longer touches the bridge cap, the bridge pin is 
> effectively a cantilevered termination.
> 
> Isn't it possible that when the string touches the pin above the bridge 
> its leverage makes for a less-secure termination, effectively increasing 
> the speaking length?

Which is exactly what I've been saying repeatedly for, what, 
seven or eight years now? Since it's been published now by 
someone official, I suppose it might finally be taken seriously.


> And why can't a .003mm increase in speaking length happen by a .003mm 
> movement of the bridge pin?
> 
> --Cy--

It's not an actual increase in speaking length. The flagpoling 
pin produces the *effect* of a longer speaking length, and 
there is no direct 1:1 correlation between how many 
thousandths the pin flexes, and how many thousandths the 
speaking length seems to grow.
Ron N