ANy mention of tapping or pounding strings down onto the bridge or near the bridge pins is bound to generate one of three reactions: (1) silence; (2) "read the archives"; or (3) a new upheaval of arguments about why that's a bad thing (or not so bad) [bad because it mushes the clean termination point; not so bad because the observer claims it to be so] and the nanotechnology of the termination point, the tension/pressure dynamics on the string, the bridge, the effect of adding mass here or there, yadda yadda, and whether it is in fact even possible for the string to ride up the bridge pins despite observers' claims that it happens. Until further undisputable research is published, it is in my opinion worth staying clean away from this as if it were a nest of vipers.
<br><br>Jason<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/23/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Gregor _</b> <<a href="mailto:karlkaputt@hotmail.com">karlkaputt@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
>From: RicB<br><br>>Yes I have used it. No I do not think it really works at all. In fact I<br>>think this tool is more likely to exasperate a problem. You may get the<br>>feeling of some slight improvement for very short term on some notes, but
<br>>IME the term is so short that by the time you finish a tuning if you go<br>>back and check the same string its just as wavery as it was to begin with.<br>><br><br>I asked the other day on this list what a false beat eliminator is. I
<br>understood that itīs a thing to hammer down (settle) the strings on the<br>bridge again. If so, why should that not work? I use a flat bar of brass for<br>it and it always works . Sometimes you can see how the string comes 1 mm
<br>down to the bridge. Are we talking about the same thing?<br><br>Gregor<br><br>_________________________________________________________________<br>Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE!
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