<HTML><HTML>List Certainly I think we can agree that strings near the plate struts go out of = tune more than those in the center of their sections.  And when it com= es to the tenor break, I think I can understand why this would happen. = The treble bridge ends there, often the stringing scale goes to copper-wou= nd strings for the last couple of unisons and I imagine the tension of those= strings differs from their steel neighbors.  And right on the other s= ide of the break, the strings are strung across in another direction; all of= those things could probably contribute to instability, although I say this = not out of knowledge of the situation, but just looking at it in a logical (= but basically uninformed) way. But why does this also happen in the treble break?  Often there's one = continuous bridge.  Steel strings on both sides.  All strung par= allel.  And yet notes on either side of this break generally go out qu= icker and farther. Why should those strings be less stable?  Tom Sivak </HTML>