Straight strung pianos, was Re: Strange bridge in a Steinway

Farrell mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com
Tue, 15 Jul 2003 07:52:46 -0400


Excellent Calin. That is exactly what I was envisioning! Very interesting. Neat piano. You sure don't see anything like that over here in MickeyLand. Thanks for the photo.

Terry Farrell
Tampa, Florida, USA (land of greedy corporate mice)
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Calin Tantareanu" <dnu@fx.ro>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 2:21 PM
Subject: Straight strung pianos, was Re: Strange bridge in a Steinway


> Terry,
> 
> This goes along your line of thinking, isn't it?
> [It's a very very old Bechstein]
> I wonder how it sounded when new. Although the idea of moving the bridge
> away from the rim is good, I really don't see why you have to bend the
> straight side (like in this case) when you can angle the strings to the
> right more.
> 
>  Calin Tantareanu
> ----------------------------------------------------
>  http://calintantareanu.tripod.com

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Farrell" <mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com>
> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2003 11:15 PM
> Subject: Re: Strange bridge in a Steinway
> 
> 
> > And who ever dictated that the bass side of the piano case had to be
> straight and at aright angle to the keyboard?
> >
> > Terry Farrell
> >
> 
> 


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