On 23 Feb 2008 at 21:28, Owain Sutton wrote: > I've played a piece where all four strings are > gradually detuned by two assistants, over the course of several minutes, > to the point where the bridge falls down. And when discussing this > piece, many other players have said they would never do this, the > soundpost would fall, or the shifting pressures on the body would be > prone to causing cracking (yeah right, like they keep it at a constant > humiditiy, too), or the universe would implode, etc. None of these has > happened yet.
While I agree that the concerns over tuning one or two strings a half or whole step away from normal are completely overblown, there really *is* a danger when the bridge is down, and that's that the post falls over (which is *good*, since it releases the tension), or that the post could poke through the top of the instrument. William Monical describes a stringed instrument as a lever balanced on a point, the bridge, and that balance can be limited to a fairly tight range. If my instrument were going to have the bridge down for any length of time, I'd definitely want to knock the post out of place. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
