>So goes the marketing claim. A couple of people, Carl Myer among >them, were intending to set up a strobe to see how valid the claim >is that the string excursion is kept vertical by the agraffe. So >far, no one has come up with supporting evidence - only conjecture. This would be a candidate for some impromptu investigation with the high-speed imaging equipment I'll have in Rochester....if there happens to be any guinea pig bridge agraffe piano available. I don't recall seeing mention of one being taken to Rochester though. Might also be interesting to compare the motion of the strings with a Wapin bridge set up to conventional bridge pinning. Stephen -- Dr Stephen Birkett Piano Design Lab Department of Systems Design Engineering University of Waterloo, Waterloo ON Canada N2L 3G1 tel: 519-888-4567 Ext. 3792 Lab room E3-3160 Ext. 7115 mailto: sbirkett[at]real.uwaterloo.ca http://real.uwaterloo.ca/~sbirkett
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