Ed; While I understand Genias response and your response, I fail to see where there is a difference in what y'all are saying. There is in fact only one "bridge" structure on these models under discussion but there is also more than one "bridge" on each of these structures. A bridge by definition is that structure which ties one entity to another entity. Acoustical dowels do not serve this purpose. If Acoustical dowels served this purpose then we would have bridges which did not connect to the sounding board except by dowels thereby eliminating the damping effect of the bridge base on the sounding board. Or so it would seem to me. The concepts of continuous bridge and multiple bridges within that continuous structure are not mutually exclusive. In any event it works very well on those instruments, Huh? Jim Bryant (FL)
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