<HTML>In a message dated 8/16/01 5:41:21 PM Central Daylight Time, drose@dlcwest.com writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">It is not the board(wood) but the plate that reacts instantly. That's why individually tied unisons drop *less* than looped (shared hitch pins), and why full perimeter metal plate pianos drop less than other designs. </BLOCKQUOTE> Don This is something new to me. Are you saying the plate reacts to a pitch raise more than the soundboard? I am not sure If I agree that the drop in pitch from an overshoot is because something happens to the plate, and not because the soundboard decompresses. And in either case, why would individually looped strings drop less than looped strings? Willem </HTML>