Sohmer

[Phillip L Ford]

On Tue, 5 Mar 2002 09:09:57   
 Delwin D Fandrich wrote:
>
>  ----- Original Message ----- 
>  From: Erwinspiano@AOL.COM 
>  To: pianotech@ptg.org 
>  Sent: March 05, 2002 6:12 AM
>  Subject: Re: Sohmer 
>
>
>    Has anybody had experience with a Sohmer piano with agraffes on the long bridge? 
>    Thankyou,
>    Owen
>
>       Owen
>      Yes I have and they went all the way up. I wrote of this before but this piano had agraffes all the way up and the board was a reverse crown design. Freak design but awesome sound. A difficult on to string>
>
>Hmmmm....
>
>Are you sure those were reverse crown by design? Those I've done had positive crown. And extremely high scale tensions -- highest I've ever measured. Around 62,000 lbs (28,000 kgf +) or better as I recall. Took some doing to bring it down and retain the agraffe design (as per the customers request).
>
>Del
>

Del,
I somehow lost a previous post in which you said you had re-engineered (right word?)
several of these pianos.  Does that mean that you eliminated the agraffes on the
bridge?  If so, why?  Here you talk about bringing down the tension and retaining the
agraffes.  I don't see what difference it makes to the scale whether you have agraffes
or bridge pins.  Could you elaborate on that a bit?

Thanks,

Phil F



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