To me it looks like they were trying to keep a constant increase in string length at the strut without using a dogleg in the bridge. That's why they moved the pins more to the front on the left and more to the back at the right of the strut. Calin Tantareanu ---------------------------------------------------- http://calintantareanu.tripod.com ---------------------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Brekne" <Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Friday, July 30, 2004 2:15 PM Subject: Re: Hamamatsu Museum of Instruments > 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 ? > > Cheers > RicB
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