It was the Baldwin 6000, a 52" vertical. The 97 gram brass weight was attached to the back of the soundboard just opposite the end of the tenor bridge. It was used to counter what I call the "end-of-the-bridge effect." Harold Conklin was granted a patent for the thing. Better results can be achieved by simply extending the low end of the tenor bridge some beyond the lowest set of bridge pins. ddf Delwin D Fandrich Piano Design & Manufacturing Consultant 620 South Tower Avenue Centralia, Washington 98531 USA Phone 360.736.7563 Cell 360.388.6525 Fax 360.736.5239 <mailto:E-maildel at fandrichpiano.com> E-mail 1: del at fandrichpiano.com E-mail 2: <mailto:ddfandrich at gmail.com> ddfandrich at gmail.com _____ From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of G Cousins Sent: April 28, 2009 6:34 AM To: CAUT Subject: Re: [CAUT] Soundboard weighting David, Baldwin did some production on their model 7000 with ading (weighted) mass to the board. Augmented the upper registers very efficiently. Yet another innovative design from the original Baldwin folk. Gerry -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut_ptg.org/attachments/20090428/5a8b11d9/attachment.html>
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