[CAUT] Stuart & Son on NPR

[Fred Sturm]

On Jan 18, 2011, at 8:16 PM, Ron Nossaman wrote:
>
> This has been addressed on Pianotech (that other list). An  
> additional kilo of agraffe mass on the bridge will increase sustain  
> and change the tonal envelope without any inherently magical  
> properties of the agraffe.
> Ron N


Could be, but that doesn't explain how putting some agraffes on a  
standard bridge makes _those_ unisons sustain so much better than the  
standard neighbors, as in the Baldwin retrofit shown I think at Grand  
Rapids. Or did that other list address that seeming magic as well?
Regards,
Fred Sturm
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