Hi Del - I looked at those pictures and one thing I noted what that the bass section had a short backscale, the bass bridge has an apron, and the tenor hitch pins are very close to the bass bridge. All suggesting to me that it would be rather difficult to move the bass bridge forward much if any at all. Seems to me that even if you cut a redesigned soundboard free at the foot, although some improvement in tone might be had, the short backscale would still tend to cause that nasty constrained nasal tone in the bass. Would it not be better to find a different old no-name clunker that might better lend itself to redesign improvements? Looking again at the photo of the bass bridge area, I see there is an apron of plate iron forward of the tenor hitch pins (in front of the bass bridge). If that is full-thickness, I suppose you could move those pins forward a bit - assuming more notes would be destined for a transition bridge. Still seems a bit cramped in that area though, and my guess is that the apron thins. But then again, I suppose all this is a problem common to most small grands. But perhaps some lend themselves to improvements more that others (like this one)? Terry Farrell On Nov 12, 2010, at 1:41 AM, Delwin D Fandrich wrote: > Were I a little younger and a little less busy I would snap that up > in a > heartbeat. Then I would redesign and remanufacture the thing with a > new > board, bridges, action--the whole thing. Everything I could think > of. Then > I'd keep it as a demo. > > When you do all of these things on a Steinway or a Baldwin and the > results > turn out better than the original folks look at it and play it, nod, > and > say, "Well, of course it sounds good; after all it's a Steinway or a > Baldwin." When you do these things to a Brambach they are kind of > forced to > give you at least a little bit of credit for knowing what you are > doing. > > ddf > > Delwin D Fandrich > Piano Design & Fabrication > 620 South Tower Avenue > Centralia, Washington 98531 USA > del at fandrichpiano.com > ddfandrich at gmail.com > Phone 360.736.7563
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