Strange bridge in a Steinway

[Nichols]

Calin,
   Only had one problem with the first one of those I encountered. The 
piano sounded great, but was shipped to a dealer...uh... far away. The tech 
for the dealer told him that the bridge was separated from the board and 
the delivery was denied, piano shipped back, etc. etc. Real shame. On the 
same piano there was a layer of darker wood, about .125, that ran through a 
section of the bridge near the killer octave. The layer wasn't strictly 
horizontal, or evenly parallel to the top of the bridge, and it created an 
optical illusion of a horizontal sloping split in the bridge. 1890ish S&S 
"A". Rosewood, 85 note.
    Thanks to advice and knowledge from experts on this list, we just 
checked it out and sold it to someone else. They loved it.

    You'll find that feature on older S&S uprights, also.

Regards,
Guy Nichols

At 06:00 PM 7/12/2003 +0300, you wrote:
>Hello!
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>I started de-stringing my newly acquired Hamburg Steinway O from 1910  and
>noticed a thing I have never seen before: the end of teh long bridge is
>suspended, resting on small "feet" that seem to be  positioned over the
>ribs.
>I have attacged two picture of it.
>Now, why would this arrangemt be used and why only for the last part of the
>bridge?
>
>Regards,
>
>  Calin Tantareanu
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