Bridge Pin Offset

Ron Nossaman RNossaman@KSCABLE.com
Mon, 15 Apr 2002 17:44:42 -0500


>Ron Nossaman wrote:
>
>> >No problem I'm sure... but I am curious to your views on just how often you
>> >run into bridges where bridge pins even come close to consistantly being on
>> >line and angle ? Seems to me that even the best makes seem to have trouble
>> >with dead on consistancy. And less expensive pianos.... well.... course
this
>> >is one of those things I just Love to hate about Petrofs...but they are
>> >certainly not alone in this....
>>
>> Terry didn't ask for philosophical discussion, he asked for guidelines. I
>> always preferred a rational starting point, so I tried to give him one.
>
>So where is the call for a philosopical discussion ??  Straight forward
>question... at least as straightforward as the one you answered below. I asked
>simply because it seemed that Terry was looking for an ideal... and I wonder 
>just
>how close we can come to the idea.... in a general sense.

Fair enough... some are pretty good, some aren't. How close you can get to
an "ideal" depends on what the ideal is, what you have to work with, and
how badly you want it. I have no idea what the practical and performance
limits are either way.

 
Ron N


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