Agraffes on Bridge

[Don Mannino]

Jim,

I see - obviously a different scale completely.  Nevertheless, my point is
that the agraffes do lead to a substantially brighter tone, and this is made
very obvious on those models where the agraffes stop at the treble break.

Don Mannino RPT

> -----Original Message-----
> From: caut-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org] On 
> Behalf Of James Ellis
> Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 1:57 PM
> To: caut@ptg.org
> Subject: Agraffes on Bridge
> 
> 
> Don, (Mannino)
> 
> You and I are apparently talking about two different scales.  
> In the scale I am talking about, the bridge agraffes did not 
> stop at the treble break, but went the entire length of the 
> main bridge all the way up to #88.  The problem was in the 
> top three octaves.  By contrast, the strings at the low end 
> of the bridge had relatively low tension.  The relative 
> tension along the main bridge went from one extreme to the other.
> 
> Thanks to all for your comments.
> 
> Jim Ellis
>  
> 
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