[CAUT] Baldwin D bridge

[Horace Greeley]

Hi, Alan,

At 02:44 PM 11/16/2010, you wrote:
>The action is so thoroughly trashed that assessing the sound is 
>...hmmm...difficult. I'd say it is mostly unremarkable and 
>uninspiring. But like assessing any old piano, where do you assign blame!?
>I kinda figured it was a feature implemented to deal with a weak 
>area of the board. I have to admit though that tuning this was not 
>as difficult (except for string lag throughout, but that's a 
>different issue, and one among many :-(  ) as I had expected after 
>seeing the bridge.

Actually, I've always rather liked this design.  Admittedly, it 
requires a different approach to tuning unisons, but it's an 
interesting approach to a complex problem and I think that, within 
limits, it works.  While I'm pretty sure that the basic pattern was 
originally patented, I can't put my finger on it...pretty sure it 
wasn't Steinway, though.

Best.

Horace


>Alan
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>From: Ed  Sutton <<ed440 at mindspring.htm>ed440 at mindspring.com>
>Reply-To: Ed Sutton <<ed440 at mindspring.htm>ed440 at mindspring.com>, 
>CAUTlist <<caut at ptg.htm>caut at ptg.org>
>Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:40:20 -0800
>To: CAUTlist <<caut at ptg.htm>caut at ptg.org>
>Subject: Re: [CAUT] Baldwin D bridge
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>This 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
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>From:  McCoy, Alan <<mailto:amccoy at ewu.edu>mailto:amccoy at ewu.edu>
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>Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2010 2:35  PM
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>Subject: [CAUT] Baldwin D bridge
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>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
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>-- Alan McCoy,  RPT
>Eastern Washington University
><amccoy at ewu.htm>amccoy at ewu.edu
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