[CAUT] Baldwin D bridge

Ed Sutton ed440 at mindspring.com
Tue Nov 16 12:40:20 MST 2010


Baldwin D bridgeThis was done on some Baldwin and also some Steinway pianos, D's that I know of. The theory was, I believe, that the inevitable out-of-tune partials would improve the sustain. 
How does it sound?

Ed Sutton

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: McCoy, Alan 
  To: College and University Technicians <caut at ptg.org> 
  Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2010 2:35 PM
  Subject: [CAUT] Baldwin D bridge


  Has anyone seen this before? These pics (not great quality, but what can you expect from a phone, ;-)) are of a Baldwin D #141772. The top bridge section is notched normally, with the notch parallel to the capo. The mid treble bridge section is notched such that the bridge pins are in line with the bridge and at an angle to the capo. Then the notching returns to normal in the tenor section. What were they trying to achieve?

  Alan


  -- Alan McCoy, RPT
  Eastern Washington University
  amccoy at ewu.edu


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