Hamamatsu Museum of Instruments

[Richard Brekne]

Well, like I said its probably old stuff for many of you. Seemed to be 
really pronounced tho in this piano, and I cant say I've noticed it 
before... at least not this much. The width of the contact area varied 
quite a bit... even more then the picture shows, and the width of the 
front vs back notched area varied even more... tapering down to a very 
short length in the low treble and very high diskant. 

So whats the reasoning behind these two things ?

I have a couple B's at the conservatory, one Hamburg and one NY.  I 
guess I'll go have a look this afternoon and compare.

Cheers
RicB

Erwinspiano@aol.com wrote:

>    Ric
>     Stwy Bs are laid out like this. Another lengthy reply. It's not 
> unusual.
>    Regards-Dale
>
>
>     Hi Folks
>
>     The Hurdy Gurdy post reminded me of a particular photo from the
>     Museum I wanted to share with you all. Perhaps old stuff for some
>     of you, but I found the bridge on this old Steinway kind of
>     interesting. Note the width and relative placement of the actual
>     string to bridge contact area. This intsrument was from 1911,
>     beautifully kept and or restored.
>
>     Cheers
>     RicB
>
>