<HTML><HEAD> <META charset=UTF-8 http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charse= t=utf-8"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1276" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fffff= f"> <DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 1/31/2004 11:13:01 PM Pacific Standard Time, davidsk= olnik@optonline.net writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue = 2px solid"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000040>   <FONT= size=4>David  wrote</FONT></FONT><BR><FONT face=Arial>So I think y= ou are saying that having zero or negative downbearing should have no detrim= ental effect on the quality of an individual note. Do I have that right?&nbs= p;<FONT size=3><STRONG> I guess I</STRONG></FONT> <EM><STRONG><FONT size= =3>would wonder then how many notes, how large a section would it take for= zero or negative downbearing to have a discernable impact</FONT></STRONG></= EM>?  Or to borrow a term from the sculptor Richard Serra, how "site-sp= ecific" is impedance?</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000040>  <FONT size=4>Da= vid </FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000040><FONT size=4>Your abov= e statement is obviously one of the questions you most assuredly asked = about & so I  my description of an artificially/accidentl= y induced section of 0 bearing in the 1st capo section of a stwy A with all = other sections having adequate bearing was attempt to give an example of wha= t your alluding to. The fact that this condition did indeed produc= e a  negative tonal response is at least one example of whatever it is = your trying to get at according to your question above. I assume your talkin= g tonal impact?</FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000040 size=4>   Ca= n some body forward the original postee on this thread?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000040 size=4>  </FONT><= FONT lang=0 face="Times New Roman" color=#000040 size=3 FAMILY="SE= RIF" PTSIZE="12">Dale Erwin<BR>Erwins Piano Restorations<BR>4721 Parker Rd= , Modesto, Ca. 95357<BR>erwinspiano@aol.com</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>