Major Surgery

[Delwin D Fandrich]

By cast-in top bridge I'm assuming you mean what we would call a cast-in capo
tastro bar? I've seen quite a few of these in early U.S. built instruments but I
don't know that they go back quite that far. I haven't really tried to keep
track. Steinway, among others, was using them across the top two sections by
then, but not the whole way down.

ddf


| -----Original Message-----
| From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org 
| [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of John Delacour
| Sent: March 29, 2008 3:22 PM
| To: Pianotech List
| Subject: RE: Major Surgery
| 
| 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 such 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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