[CAUT] Stuart & Son on NPR now bridge agraffes

[Conrad Hoffsommer]

My guess is to prevent torquing or rolling the bridge.

Conrad Hoffsommer




> From: fssturm at unm.edu
> To: caut at ptg.org
> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2011 20:11:50 -0700
> Subject: Re: [CAUT] Stuart & Son on NPR now bridge agraffes
> 
> On Jan 20, 2011, at 1:53 PM, Larry J Messerly wrote:
> 
> > Here are some pictures of the agraffes on an American built Schimmel.
> > Worked well, screws accessable, and good tone and sustain even  
> > though 80
> > years old.
> 
> 
> Very curious, those treble agraffes. It looks like alternate unisons  
> have the strings being pressed from above or from below, at the  
> speaking length termination. I wonder why they would flip them back  
> and forth like that. Doesn't look like it is a spacing issue.
> Regards,
> Fred Sturm
> fssturm at unm.edu
> "I am only interested in music that is better than it can be played."  
> Schnabel
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