Thank you - very glad you liked it! The trimming thing is a bit odd - it's not actually for tuning, but to change the position of the strings in relation to each other. My teacher did it for me once because I was having trouble with my bow hitting more than one string at once (unintentionally). Adjusting the arc of the bridge can space the strings differently making them easier to hit with more precision. (I've also been known to prop up a string or two to make them sit up higher, though God knows what that does to the tone!) I believe trimming is more likely to happen when a bridge is new and needs to be fitted to the instrument. In my case, it may just have been a quick fix for my teacher whose student didn't have a good enough technique, but it is not unheard of for good players to tinker with stuff to get a better sound. Though I've never seen it done, I've heard you can also trim a bridge, usually the underside, to improve the tone of the instrument.

Anyway, my idea was that Quatre did not like the way he was transitioning from one string to another, and that it was something that had been bothering him for a while but he'd never done anything about it (or possibly that he'd never quite realized what the problem was) until that night. (Blatant relationship metaphor much?) Hope that makes sense! I tried explaining in more detail in the story but it just got too cumbersome, so I left it out. Sorry for being lazy and vague. Thanks again for the feedback and I love your icon!! Fiddlers rule!