Wound strings are not the cause of hockey-stick bridges. Hckey-stick bridges are simply caused by the desire to use plain wire unisons far down the scale, when the case of the piano doesn't allow them to have their full length (when compared to the lengths given by a sort of geometric progression of the scale). The wound strings in that area are just an attempt to make those unisons sound better than they would with plain wire. Calin Tantareanu ---------------------------------------------------- http://calintantareanu.tripod.com ---------------------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cy Shuster" <741662027@theshusters.org> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 5:54 AM Subject: Re: Inharmonicity factors > Wow... are current U3's (or U5's) still like that? Thanks for the answer! > > So wrapped strings on the treble bridge lead to that "hockey stick" treble > bridge shape, since the wrapped strings have to suddenly become shorter? > > --Cy--
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