<HTML> <TT></TT> <TT></TT> <TT>Joe & Penny Goss wrote:</TT> <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE><TT>Del,</TT> <TT> The bass and other strings that have the hammers angled to the string will</TT> <TT>have a different strike point measurement from the termination points of</TT> <TT>bridge and agraff/capo bar. This causes to my ear the distortion of the</TT> <TT>sound of the unison much like phasing of unlevel strings. As a double bass</TT> <TT>player, I long ago discovered that one could divide the string into 1/2</TT> <TT>1/3  1/4  segments and play the overtone series ,  but also divide the</TT> <TT>string into smaller segments and draw out a diatonic scale of the upper</TT> <TT>partials of the string. Moving the finger lightly along the string only a</TT> <TT>small fraction of an inch will make the change occur.</TT> <TT>With the string line angled one way and the hammers the other will MHO</TT> <TT>cause what I believe Roger is referring to especially on bass strings that</TT> <TT>are already too short to produce a good sound.</TT> <TT>Joe Goss</TT></BLOCKQUOTE> <TT>Joe,</TT><TT></TT> <TT>Ideally the nodes of diatonic scale correspond with the just intervals: 3:2, 4:3, 5:4, etc. I, too have discovered these nodes, and with some practice as a distasteful guitar and bass player can excite two at a time (the higher nodes  with a surface considerably smaller than a finger).</TT><TT></TT> <TT>However, excluding nodes (as the hammer will do) at 1/9 or even 1/8 +/- 1mm max with a big ol' compressing bass hammer?! I could run it on Excel on a Whitney spinet bass string pair to see what  separate partials it can exclude...and anyways, could these two strings produce a "good sound?"</TT><TT></TT> <TT>Respectfully, without checking this data, I disagree.</TT><TT></TT> <TT>Clark Panaccione</TT></HTML>