My comment was/is in support of those who are concerned
about putting an unfortunate twist into a string and then
wanting to twirl the brass ball to undo that. "Scientific" ? ?
Funny word to toss about amongst musicians and players,
but I'll speak empirically here: I have taken and used some
advice about sick sounding strings, advice that suggested
slacking the string enuf to twist the ball, and this has been
successful more than twice.
The advice I encountered did not concern "wrong twists"
but instead suggested twisting in the direction of tighter
outer winding. It's worked more often than not, but not
100% of instances. When it worked, decent tone was
instilled in previously dud strings, generally the lighter
[higher] strings.
Anywho I have also wished there were top load holes in
my string thru bridges [EB and other brands] but I know
better than to try drilling into hardened steel :-O
BP, why-oh-why are there no top load holes in EBMM's
string-thru-body bridges ? Of course it costs extra but
surely there is no technical deficiency ? Or is there ?
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