<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> Del wrote: <...it will take more than marketing gobble-d-gook to convince me. Looks like I got that wrong, regarding the zero downbearing. The various marketing spiels I've heard lead me to believe that downbearing with the phoenix agraffes was zip. However, looking at Atlantic music's website, I see the following: "With the new bridge agraffes, tensile force in the string is used to develop high contact loads between the strings and the bridge cap via independent knife edges. This system permits adjustment of the balance of forces within each individual agraffe. New adjustable hitch pins were developed so that the amount of down bearing on the bridge can be adjusted to within 1/100 of a millimeter. The end result is that pressure on the sounding board has been greatly reduced, thereby further increasing acoustic efficiency. The agraffes have achieved a perceptibly altered, brighter spectrum of overtones, more clarity, increased sustain and greater volume." That quote does not say zero downbearing. It seems to infer that downbearing is reduced, but as usual, the spiel is less than informative. Jim  Ialeggio <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- Jim Ialeggio <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:jim@grandpianosolutions.com">jim@grandpianosolutions.com</a> 978 425-9026 Shirley Center, MA </pre> </body> </html>