Agraffes on Bridge

[Otto Keyes]

My Sohmer is one like that you encountered Don...agraffes in the top 2
sections.  Aesthetically, it has very clean lines, but suffers from
acoustical anemia.  On the other hand, maybe it just has too much brass.....

Otto

----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Mannino" <dmannino@kawaius.com>
To: "'College and University Technicians'" <caut@ptg.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 7:42 AM
Subject: RE: Agraffes on Bridge


> 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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