This one is an older version. David Love davidlovepianos at comcast.net www.davidlovepianos.com -----Original Message----- From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of piannaman at aol.com Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 11:29 PM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: Schiedmeier Pianos and under bridge structure David, Is this the recent version of Schiedmayer (sp.?) built by Kawai within the last 20 years, or the older German variety? Dave Stahl, RPT Dave Stahl Piano Service 650-224-3560 dstahlpiano at sbcglobal.net http://dstahlpiano.net/ -----Original Message----- From: David Love <davidlovepianos at comcast.net> To: 'Pianotech List' <pianotech at ptg.org> Sent: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 8:29 pm Subject: Schiedmeier Pianos and under bridge structure Tuned a Schiedmeier piano today (7'grand) and decided, as is my tendency, to crawl under and examine the belly. There was a duplicate bridge structure, about the same height, that ran the entire length of the long bridge (sorry no picture), attached to the soundboard directly underneath the topside bridge. There were cutouts along the length to allow the ribs to pass through untouched. It is obviously, for mass loading, at least. The piano has fabulous sustain and clarity and I'd be curious to know if any other pianos or piano designers employ such a structure or see the benefit of doing so. The structure, btw, did not exist underneath the bass bridge. David Love davidlovepianos at comcast.net www.davidlovepianos.com <http://www.davidlovepianos.com/> _____ AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at <http://www.aol.com?ncid=AOLAOF00020000000437> AOL.com. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20070706/c5af849c/attachment.html
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