Bass Bridge Position-upright

[Greg Newell]

Del,
I agree with this approach wholeheartedly which is why I've been
accumulating "guinea pigs". My hope is to clear off some dead wood and do
just what you describe. My question was based on the things I've been
reading from you, Ron, Ron, Dale, David, etc. for a few years now. My
judgment from the pictures was that the back scale was more than necessary
and gave up a bit too much speaking length. I also thought that visually,
the bridge seemed a bit further in than necessary. Naturally I don't have
anything to go on except the picture and that's why I asked for
clarification. Thanks so much for your post! (all of them actually) 

Greg Newell
Greg's Piano Forté
www.gregspianoforte.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of Delwin D Fandrich
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 3:21 PM
To: 'Pianotech List'
Subject: RE: Bass Bridge Position-upright

 

| -----Original Message-----
| From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org 
| [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Greg Newell
| Sent: March 11, 2008 5:42 AM
| To: 'Pianotech List'
| Subject: RE: Bass Bridge Position-upright
| 
| Fenton,
| That's some nice looking work. Probably better than the old 
| upright deserved. I'm curious. Why did you go for THAT MUCH 
| backscale. 


Because one way to learn about these things is to carry a concept to it's
illogical extreme. It's the same way I started out when I was learning about
these things. On old uprights (mostly) that I pushed to, and beyond, their
limits. Things didn't always work and sometimes I ended up either doing them
over or tossing them out. Once I'd exhausted 

Books, magazine articles and papers--even classes--based on someone else's
research can only take you so far. From then on you really have to wade in
there
and get your own hands dirty. 

ddf