On Dec 18, 2010, at 3:02 PM, Edward Sambell wrote: > Probably the worst example was Sabbatil of Vancouver , Canada, but > they did change eventually. Yes, Sabathil does take the cake for bridges and stringing, and for use of foam rubber all over the place (jack rail, buff stop). I have one from the 70s that has 16', 2 8' and 4'. All the strings go to hitch pins on a metal rail on the bent side (actually straight), meaning the four foot strings go through slots in both the 8 foot and 16 foot bridge, then attach to a screw protruding on the bottom side of the hitch pin rail. I always shuddered to think I might some day have to replace one. Worse even than the Neupert design, which is pretty bad. It's a monstrous big instrument, with next to no volume. I used to tune it every year for a New Year's party, but it's been a while, so I can at least hope it has disappeared from my life. Nah, it'll turn up again. I do have a Sabathil from the 90s as well, that is really not so bad. Much closer to being a real harpsichord. So they did learn something. In the pictures below, you can barely see the 4 foot jacks. They have a screw protruding upward, to hit against the foam rubber of the jack rail. And you can see the top of the dampers. Next to impossible to get one out, because the damper is on a metal slide, and it won't slide, hence you have to move strings out of the way. You can see the foam rubber is turning yellow, about to disintegrate (thankfully it is played very little, or that would have happened long since). Regards, Fred Sturm fssturm at unm.edu "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness." Twain -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20101218/df11e624/attachment-0001.htm> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Sabathil C bridges closeup_2.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 48675 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20101218/df11e624/attachment-0004.jpg> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Sabathil C jacks:t pins from SB_2.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 79500 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20101218/df11e624/attachment-0005.jpg> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Sabathil C jack tops_2.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 88767 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20101218/df11e624/attachment-0006.jpg> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Sabathil C jack rail foam.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 53375 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20101218/df11e624/attachment-0007.jpg>
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