So, what is a ring bridge? as opposed to...? Andrew Anderson At 11:45 AM 3/1/2006, you wrote: >>Ran across this site. This is a serious, and apparently innovative >>piano person. > > >He certainly is ambitious, and seems to have extra cash to play >with. Does very pretty work too. I see he's got the compulsory 8 >monochords, 5 bichords, and 7 trichords for a 20 note bass. I wonder >where that recipe came from, and if his A-0 core wire is 1.6mm. I >can't tell if it's a ring bridge, but I suspect it might just be. >Take a look at what he did with the bridge layout to avoid >conflicting pin rows, and the four strings per note in the top three >sections. I'd love to see the scaling numbers on this piano. Any >idea what the huge (looks like about) 25mm circles all over the >soundboard are? They might correspond to rib locations, from the >spacing, but what are they? > >Not enough pictures of construction details. > >Aha! > >http://www.borgato.it/grancoda.htm > >Yup, it's a ring bridge. >Ron N >_______________________________________________ >Pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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