What comes to my mind is, that the ends are connected, to a secondary bridge, behind. Which is attached? John M. Ross Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada jrpiano at win.eastlink.ca ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Boyce" <David at piano.plus.com> To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org> Sent: Friday, July 06, 2007 4:19 PM Subject: Odd bass bridge >I tuned an upright today with a bass bridge feature I'd not seen before. >It > makes contact with the soundboard only at the two ends, as you can see in > the picture. The blocks are about 2 1/2" long, and the right-hand one has > a > tail that goes under the frame, and which I foolishly missed out of the > photo. The whole of the rest of the bridge floats about half an inch > above > the soundboard. I wonder what the theory was - perhaps the two ends are > supposed to be on special nodes in the soundbard or something? > > David. >
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