On Nov 16, 2010, at 12:35 PM, McCoy, Alan wrote: > The top bridge section is notched normally, with the notch parallel > to the capo. In the Steinway version, an interesting feature is the duplex bars, that are set up to be parallel to the notching. Baldwin did that on the cheap (looking at your photo), slanting individual duplex bars for each unison. The one I service regularly, I find no particular issue tuning those unisons. It happens to be an instrument that was rebuilt under the theory of "increase downbearing as much as you can when you can," so the plate was set considerably lower (new block sits 3 mm lower than remains of the old, as one piece of evidence), and the sustain is as near zero as I have heard on a D. So maybe that is why I have no trouble with the unisons: they don't last long enough to be objectionable. More than one way to skin any cat <G>. Regards, Fred Sturm fssturm at unm.edu "I am only interested in music that is better than it can be played." Schnabel -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20101116/420fa413/attachment.htm>
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