At 11:59 -0700 29/3/08, Delwin D Fandrich wrote: >It has long puzzled me why piano makers would go to such extremes >when designing and fitting pinblocks. Brinsmead is not alone in >this. We're working on a Kranich & Bach piano just now with another >unnecessarily complex pinblock >design... I don't know for how long Brinsmead ran this design. I've not seen it before and I doubt whether many pianos were made to this pattern. I have also never seen a Brinsmead with a cast-in top bridge like this and I think this is the key. Much later many small grands used a cast-in bridge but my guess is that the technology for casting sych a frame was not developed and there were problems for the foundry in combining this design with a more rational plate. I've never come across such an early piano with a cast-in top bridge all the way through. It's even possible Brinsmead was the first to try it. Have you come across any American pianos as early as this with a cast-in top bridge? JD
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