Making long bridges

[Bill Ballard]

At 11:17 AM -0500 3/20/04, John Hartman wrote:
>Dale, check the archives, we went into this a while back.

This should get you started.

At 9:15 PM -0500 4/9/03, Ron Nossaman wrote:
>What drives the soundboard flat in the killer octave first, I think, 
>is load and leverage. The affected area of the scale is in the part 
>of the bridge where the bend is greatest. If the bridge was 
>straight, it could act as a rib and help support string bearing load 
>in that area. But it's bent, so as it's loaded, it rotates. This is 
>why crowning the long bridge is of little benefit - if any. It 
>doesn't help support crown.

Bill Ballard RPT
NH Chapter, P.T.G.

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