[CAUT] Baldwin D bridge

[Greg Granoff]

Alan,

Steinway did this for a while in the '20s to the treble sections of concert
grands (at least the only examples I've ever seen were concert grands).
Best I've been able to learn is that the hope was for a more penetrating, or
perhaps projective tone, though the only thing I ever experienced is a
feeling of being extremely annoyed while tuning one of them.  Maybe the
theory is that if you can prevent the poor tooner from making "dead"
unisons, the piano will sound more lively(?)

 

Greg Granoff

Humboldt State Univ.

 

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From: caut-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of McCoy,
Alan
Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2010 11:35 AM
To: College and University Technicians <caut at ptg.org>
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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