More on bridge making

David Love davidlovepianos@earthlink.net
Sat, 10 May 2003 09:45:50 -0700


Not if I add my dewobbler to the design.

David Love
davidlovepianos@earthlink.net


> [Original Message]
> From: Farrell <mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com>
> To: Pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Date: 5/10/2003 3:15:59 AM
> Subject: Re: More on bridge making
>
> And besides, horizontal laminates would put a crook in the circle of
sound and make things sound wobbly.
>
> Terry Farrell
>   
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bill Ballard" <yardbird@vermontel.net>
> To: <davidlovepianos@earthlink.net>; "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2003 12:02 AM
> Subject: Re: More on bridge making
>
>
> > At 8:07 PM -0700 5/9/03, David Love wrote:
> > >Is there any reason you wouldn't make a bridge root out of pinblock
> > >material?  I'm thinking of a straight bass bridge in which the material
> > >would be turned so the laminations were vertical.  I have a fair
amount of
> > >scrap.
> > 
> > I'd imagine that with the glue lines horizontal was with marine 
> > plywood, the sound would have to travel through a half dozen glue 
> > lines before passing throughout he bottom glue and into the board. 
> > With vertical lamination, each lamination runs from the cap to the 
> > root. (Lemme see, does maple have the tiny resonator disks, too?)
> > 
> > At 9:48 PM -0500 5/9/03, Ron Nossaman wrote:
> > >Again, it won't make any real difference either way.
> > 
> > Bill Ballard RPT
> > NH Chapter, P.T.G.
> > 
> > ".......true more in general than specifically"
> >      ...........Lenny Bruce, spoofing a radio discussion of the Hebrew 
> > roots of Calypso music
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