<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD><TITLE></TITLE> <META http-equiv=Content-Type = content=text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2802" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY text=#000000 bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: = black"><B>From:</B> <A title=ricbrek@broadpark.no = href="mailto:ricbrek@broadpark.no">Ric Brekne</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A = title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, January 05, = 2006 12:01 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> MHA</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><PRE></PRE> <DIV>Carl writes:<BR><I>I have a Mason Hamlin A<BR><BR>I remember a = discussion abut the dreadfully short tail length.<BR><BR>You will see that (photo = attached) there is about 1/2 inch from the rear <BR>bridge pin to the = start of the winding twist of the bass string.  Not much <BR>flexibility = in that set up.<BR></I><BR>My understanding is that as long as its wagging its = not a big problem :)<BR><I><BR>It's easy to see that even if the bass string = is trying to move the bridge <BR>up and down, the plate is trying to hold = it still.<BR><BR></I>Holding the beasts tail eh ???  Well.. a short = rope is a short rope no matter how you stake it... yes ?  Poor puppy is = going to be choked no matter how waggly his tail is.<BR></DIV><FONT = face=Arial size=2></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>What I'm trying to do is make the = rope 2 inches rather than 1/2 inch.  That's almost 400 percent.  The 1 and = 1/2 inches is more of a rod than a rope</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Carl</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV>Cheers<BR>RicB<BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>