Calin Tantareanu wrote: > Hello! > > I looked at the photo of the bass bridge of teh Paulello piano, and there's > one thing puzzling me: the device looks similar to a Stuart bridge agraffe, > only reversed. This seems to nave no downbearing, since the strings bear on > the upper termination. Am I getting this right?? > How is this piano constructed? > > Calin Tantareanu No no... :) Actaully the fact that the string is terminated by a horizontal bar over the strings is kinda handy, tho this has nothing to do with string downbearing perse. The String/aggaffe assembly as it were, will still have an independant relationship (downbearing) to the bridge. As far as the point that David Stanwood made about the lack of sidebearing. I'd like to see more discussion about this. Cheers RicB -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. UiB, Bergen, Norway mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html
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