The inverse structural modification for assigning a subset of natural frequencies of a structure to some targeted values has been found to inevitably lead to undesired changes to the other natural frequencies of the original structure that should not have been modified, which is referred to as the frequency "spill-over" phenomenon. Passive structural modifications of mass-spring systems for partial assignment of natural frequencies without frequency "spill-over" are addressed in this paper. For two kinds of lumped mass-spring systems, i.e. simply connected in-line mass-spring systems and multi...