As I'm looking more at bridges lately, I tuned a Kawai KG3C today and noticed that the bridge seemed to be made of solid maple. Am I correct? There seemed to be no cap. I meant to ask this question of Ron the other day in response to one of his posts. If making a bridge out of solid maple, the grain should run horizontally not vertically? Did I read that correctly? Why is that? Laminated bridges create a faux vertical grain, it wood (ha ha) seem, though the grain in the laminations is horizontal. David Love davidlovepianos@earthlink.net
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