With reference to a Stuart piano Del wrote: The device he is using is nearly exactly like one I experimented with for a time in the late 1980s at Baldwin. (Nearly, but not quite. Mine was machined out of bronze. I think his is cast something or other, probably steel.) The side-by-side performance of the device compared with bridge pins was measurably identical. That is, when measuring adjacent unisons in the same piano, one with standard bridge pins and the next with the bridge termination device. What measurements have you taken? Del ------------- Del, Would you care to elaborate on this a little? I haven't seen the Stuart piano. If the side by side performance of your device was comparable with notched bridges with pins I would think that the device in question would have some advantages over a conventional bridge string termination. Were there some reasons that it wasn't adopted? Phil --- Phillip Ford Piano Service & Restoration 1777 Yosemite Ave San Francisco, CA 94124 Make a difference, help support the relief efforts in the U.S. http://clubs.lycos.com/live/events/september11.asp
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