---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Please get your quotes correct Ron. Ron Overs wrote: > Ric B wrote: > > >.... seems to me tho...that if you > >could avoid the side bearing whilst maintaining the solid contact on the > >bridge..... > > Wayne Stuart carries on about the negative effects of side bearing > effecting the tone. But I don't believe it. Sarah Fox wrote this : > >I've always wondered about that. I would presume the slant of the bridge > >pins and the severe angle of the string between pins is intended to keep the > >string pressed firmly to the top surface of the bridge, but wouldn't the > >downbearing already achieve that? > > Not sufficiently, some offset angle, whether it be horizontal or > vertical, is necessary to prevent falseness. I know this first hand > because I have built a bridge with insufficient side draft angle, > through a spreadsheet formula error. The tone was a disaster until > the bridge was recapped. Of course an alternative engineering > solution could be employed, but it wouldn't be as cheap. > And this as well.. > > >What would happen if a string were passed straight over the bridge without > >pins, like on a violin? What would happen? How would it sound? > > Very ordinary. While this area of string termination warrants further > study, some offset or an alternative solid termination is necessary > for clean tone. > > By the way list folks, does anybody have an email address for > John-Paul Williams, who teaches piano technology at the London City > and Guilds piano technology course. I would like to contact him. > > Ron O. > -- > ___ -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. UiB, Bergen, Norway mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/26/46/1d/be/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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