On Jan 18, 2011, at 2:59 PM, Ron Nossaman wrote: > There has been lots of garbling concerning bridge agraffes. Stuart > wasn't, by far, the first piano produced with bridge agraffes, and > should never have been granted a patent on the concept. Did Stuart get a patent on the concept? I know that Richard Dain of Hurstwood Farm, the developer of the Phoenix system, says up front that the bridge agraffe has been around since the 1800s. Hurstwood Farm carries Stuart, so I have assumed that Dain took what Stuart had been doing and added his own refinements. Regards, Fred Sturm fssturm at unm.edu http://www.youtube.com/fredsturm
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