Bass Bridge Position

[Fenton Murray]

Dave L. and Ron N.
Thanks for posting all this hard data, it's very useful to have these 
documented mods to refer to on projects.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Nossaman" <rnossaman at cox.net>
To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2008 8:37 PM
Subject: Re: Bass Bridge Position


>
>> Looking at it again I could actually move it up fairly easily without any
>> plate grinding since there is a bit of room from where A0 crosses and the
>> end of the bridge.  My scale experiments suggest that this scale looks a 
>> bit
>> better with 12 or 13 monochords in the bass instead of 10.  I'd be 
>> curious
>> to know how many notes on your transition and what the speaking lengths 
>> at
>> the beginning and end were.  David Love
>
> I left the monochords at ten, and ended up with an A-0 length of 1308mm, 
> and transition lengths of 987 at B-2. and 932 at D-3. Four notes. It 
> worked real pretty in the spreadsheet, and the bridge placement and 
> lengths sound (so far) like I won't need any mass loading or even voicing 
> to smooth the transition. It's very smooth right out of the box, and I 
> don't even have the hammers squared up and strings mated to them yet. I 
> seem to have come pretty close.
>
> Ron N
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