More on bridge making

[Farrell]

And besides, horizontal laminates would put a crook in the circle of sound and make things sound wobbly.

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Ballard" <yardbird@vermontel.net>
To: <davidlovepianos@earthlink.net>; "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2003 12:02 AM
Subject: Re: More on bridge making


> At 8:07 PM -0700 5/9/03, David Love wrote:
> >Is there any reason you wouldn't make a bridge root out of pinblock
> >material?  I'm thinking of a straight bass bridge in which the material
> >would be turned so the laminations were vertical.  I have a fair amount of
> >scrap.
> 
> I'd imagine that with the glue lines horizontal was with marine 
> plywood, the sound would have to travel through a half dozen glue 
> lines before passing throughout he bottom glue and into the board. 
> With vertical lamination, each lamination runs from the cap to the 
> root. (Lemme see, does maple have the tiny resonator disks, too?)
> 
> At 9:48 PM -0500 5/9/03, Ron Nossaman wrote:
> >Again, it won't make any real difference either way.
> 
> Bill Ballard RPT
> NH Chapter, P.T.G.
> 
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