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Quick thoughts: a set of strings exerts about 100-120 pounds of tension on a neck - largely parallel to the neck, to be sure, but that's a lot of poundage. Adding a little wobble to the pitch with your hand on the neck is like changing string gauge for a second - an additional shift of maybe 10 or 15 pounds. It's also like pulling up on a tremolo bar. Not a huge difference. Also, I've noticed that my own guitars and basses tend to drop/rise as much as 25 cents when a major change in humidity occurs. Also, I've done guitar repairs for many years and I've never seen a single instrument with damage from this technique. Also, I've been doing it to my own guitars for almost thirty years, including the occasional Belew-inspired pull-back, causing the strings to "fret out" and squeal, with no apparent damage. Also, just moving a guitar from horizontal/table position to vertical/playing position can generate a pitch shift of 5 cents or so. So my belief system embraces the guitar neck as a flexible item. Mild neck wrenching probably should'nt critical. But I am, after all, The Coyote. Douglas Baldwin, coyote-at-large coyotelk@optonline.net > Lorenzo German recommended that technique to me when I was contemplating > whether or not to get the piezo pickups for my Klein and therefore lose the > tremolo. I didn't ask him what it did to the longevity of the guitar. > > Mark >