Bechstein sound unchanged?

[Farrell]

Interesting. I was looking at the first picture and noticing the front (top) 
speaking length termination line. It has a very abrupt angle change about 
four notes treble of the bass/tenor break. Got a picture of the long bridge? 
Seems to me even an extreme hockey-stick-shaped long bridge would not 
account for such a sharp angle. Does this piano have a transition bridge 
where the last several notes before the bass bridge are on a separate 
bridge?

Terry Farrell

----- Original Message ----- 
> The local theatre got some funding to replace their elderly upright 
> pianos,
> and got three nice new European uprights, one of which is a Bechstein to
> replace a huge old Bechstein in one of the rooms.
>
> I tuned it today and was musing that there are quite a few 100+ year-old
> Bechsteins of a similar size in my area.  I was reflecting that in some 
> ways
> the "look" was similar, with agraffes throughout, and then I realised that
> the sound quality is very much the same, allowing for a century of wear. 
> A
> kind of sweet, pleasant, not too challenging and not too powerful tone.
> Interesting that they haven't changed the sound they aim for in that size
> model in a century!
>
> I liked the arrangement for the celeste rail - no spring involved at the
> top. (I don't think the pic shows it very well).
>
> The theatre also has a beautiful S&S B, about 115 years old, but rebuilt 
> by
> Steinway about 25 years ago, and wonderful.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> David.
>