Drifting Unisons

kam544@flash.net kam544@flash.net
Mon Nov 8 19:14 MST 1999


>...The bridge pins of the center
>strings are aligned closer to the center line running the length of the
>bridge than are the two outside strings.  Therefore if there's any
>bridge movement at all the center strings' bridge pins may not move much
>in relation to each other, but the two outside strings would tend to
>move in opposite ways because of the position of the pins in the notch
>created by chiseling out the bridges...
>Richard West

This is a pretty neat concept, Richard, and might be the significant factor
for this drift.  Thanks for bringing it up.

Keith McGavern
Registered Piano Technician
Oklahoma Chapter 731
Piano Technicians Guild
USA




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