<html> <body> <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Hi John,                  You have had good advice from Ron.N.  A few things to add. Buy a small wood  carvers chisel, they work very nicely when cleaning up bridge notches. Secondly it looks like a small gap behind the centre string bridge pin, a wee drip of CA glue will clean up any falseness on this string. Finally make sure the hammer fitting to the string is correct. Regards Roger At 04:23 PM 2/24/2006, you wrote: <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""> Oh Wiser-than-I Ones, (of which there are multitudes!)   I heard a "zinging" in the attack of a low tenor string on a customer's piano.  She heard it, too, and didn't like it.  (Turned out a little needling on the hammer at about 1 o'clock and 11 o'clock softened that attack nicely) Upon close inspection I notice an anomaly in the way the bridge was notched. It's the right string of the lowest plain string unison.  I was wondering if I might elicit a few opinions about the looks of this.  I've attached a photo -- I hope it comes through!   The bridge isn't notched all the way across on that right-most pin.  On the side that the string bears there is certainly a good notch, but to the right of that it's not.  Seems like that would actually strengthen rather than weaken the pin's hold, but since it looks unusual I thought I'd ask.  Extending upward from the un-notched edge there is a visible line.  That's the border of the notching.  It is not a crack.  This is a fairly new piano, about 3 or 4 years old, a Knabe Studio Upright.   Thanks,   John Dorr Helena, MT _______________________________________________ Pianotech list info: <a href="https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives" eudora="autourl"> https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives</a></blockquote> </blockquote></body> </html>