[CAUT] Baldwin Termination Bars

[Ron Nossaman]

Fred Sturm wrote:
> On May 10, 2009, at 10:27 PM, Bob Hull wrote:
> 
>> Also, the horizontally laminated bridge caps have negated the 
>> phenomenon of the right and center strings of unisons going much more 
>> out of tune than the left string.
> 
> 
>     That's an interesting observation. 

As I've said on both lists, these caps are much more stable 
than anything typically in use, so this effect will be 
minimized as well as general tuning drift.


>The original bridge would have 
> been vertically laminated without cap, I presume. So a horizontally 
> laminated cap was put on the vertically laminated base? (material routed 
> off to make room).  Kind of like the Steinway design, but the cap being 
> laminated?

I made all new bridges, as I typically do with a redesign. The 
vertically laminated root makes it easy to bend whatever shape 
I want. The laminated cap is hard and dimensionally stable, 
making the tuning more stable, and minimizing possibilities of 
false beats.

Ron N