<html><head><style type="text/css"></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">Ron, I haven't been on the list as long as many others, and sometimes don't know when sarcasm is intended.  Now, I'm not sure what you're recommending.  Please help a newbie.</DIV> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif"> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">Richard<BR><BR></DIV> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">----- Original Message ----<BR>From: Ron Nossaman <rnossaman@cox.net><BR>To: Pianotech List <pianotech@ptg.org><BR>Sent: Thursday, September 7, 2006 10:39:31 PM<BR>Subject: Re: Bridge Seating (was Re: Where to notch a bridge, & relative effects ????? (Advice sought)<BR><BR> <DIV>> 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?<BR>> <BR>> David Ilvedson, RPT<BR><BR>Extremely heavy, seemingly infinitely repeated sigh - because <BR>the notch edge has been crushed by the bridge expanding with <BR>humidity increase, pushing the string up the pin against both <BR>the friction of side bearing, and pin slant. This has been <BR>gone over on list more times than I have fingers and toes to <BR>count, and way past my personal tolerance, in excruciating <BR>detail. If you don't get it by now, please, get the biggest <BR>hammer you can lift, and seat those strings as energetically <BR>as you possibly can. Use both hands. Drive them in really <BR>deep, and rest assured in the belief that you have rendered a <BR>miracle and corrected a situation that isn't demonstrably <BR>physically possible in the first place. You have my blessing.<BR><BR>Over and out.<BR><BR>Ron N</DIV></DIV> <DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif"><BR></DIV></div></body></html>