Way cool piano pics

Andrew and Rebeca Anderson anrebe@sbcglobal.net
Wed Mar 1 19:35:23 MST 2006


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
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