> I've made such replacements both as one-piece-per-section, and as six > separate pieces more or less per the original (and similar to S&S and > many other modern pianos). Both seem to work equally well. Fewer > pieces are easier to make and install; but to my eye the six pieces look > a little nicer. Not to me. Given sanction to make changes, the tuned front duplex goes. I'm not a fan of arbitrary extraneous noises generated by stylish counter bearing bar placement, which is a real by product of tuned front duplexes. I like the way the look of the continuous bar sounds. Ron N
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