Novel Ibach grand

[Robin Blankenship]

I too see an Ibach grand a couple of times a year that has a 'third' bridge
built above the bass bridge. I also do not notice any particular pros or
cons about it. The poor old thing has so many  other problems that
relatively minor tuning or tone peculiarities get lost in the shuffle. At
least, that is a little less recapping one would have to do!!
Robin

----- Original Message -----
From: Brian Lawson <lawsonic@global.co.za>
To: pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 1999 12:36 PM
Subject: Novel Ibach grand


>Hi, I have been working on an old Ibach grand these last couple of days and
>its unique feature which I've not seen before is that the bottom octave has
>these notes strung onto vertical extentions of the bass bridge,  in that
>these 12 notes make contact into a notch in the side of individual
>hexagonal
>rods that screw into the top of the existing bridge with a bar on top of
>these to keep them in place - quiet novel, cant say it sounds any better or
>worse for it, but also Ibach when to all this trouble to get longer strings
>and then only made it an 85 note piano. Action is regular Langer but for
>extra break in the bass at last octave.
>
>
>Brian Lawson
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