> To my mind, bridge pins hitting struts should wake someone up to ask > a question or two. That's the point I was trying to make. Now it may > well be that a particular design philosophy would find that scenario > acceptable, and that's fine by me. > > Regards, > Fred Sturm And my point is that it isn't a mindless random thing, much less a bad thing. The lower the struts are, the closer to the plane of string tension they are, which I'd call a good idea from a structural standpoint. Bridge pins jammed against the underside of a strut with the soundboard unloaded, and clearing after loading with downbearing is a non event after the fact, and a perfectly reasonable and workable engineering approach. Steinway has enough generally unacknowledged though demonstrable design problems without including a non problem like this on the list. Ron N
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