Making long bridges

[John Hartman]

Erwinspiano@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 3/20/2004 6:41:08 AM Pacific Standard Time, 
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> 
>     Don't forget to crown the bottom of your new bridge before gluing it on
>     the soundboard.
> 
>     John Hartman RPT
> 
>      John
>      This is  odd. JustLast night I was remebering to ask you about this 
> procedure.  I recall seeing a slide in your class once with a few words 
> about it but didn't get a round to discussion. I've noticed that some of 
> the older Bs have very little crown cut it into the bottom side & since 
> I'll be doing several shortly I'm interested a very accurate method of 
> doing this.
>   Dale

Dale, check the archives, we went into this a while back.

-- 
John Hartman RPT

John Hartman Pianos
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