[pianotech] YC Capo Bars

[Delwin D Fandrich]

Cost. If memory serves these things were cut out of large planks using NC
bandsaws. There was very little waste involved. Less, I'd guess, than making
the bridge body out of solid stock. And less labor than making up vertically
laminated bodies and capping them with anything. In reasonably high
production it is easier--cheaper--to make maple plywood out of peeled maple
veneer of indeterminate grade and cut out the whole bridge at one time on an
NC machine than to select reasonably high grade solid stock for a bridge
body and cap it. Or to glue up a vertically laminated body, trim it to
height and cap that with whatever.

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


-----Original Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of Ron Nossaman
Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2010 6:28 PM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [pianotech] YC Capo Bars

I don't know why Kimball did it, except they knew it made a good solid
bridge and were willing to suffer the waste of material for the convenience.
It will indeed make a good solid bridge. You just have to put a piano under
it.