Here is the bridge layout of one of those Nieumeyer uprights. This piano had a tremendous bass, the full throbbing type: I like my bass to throb! Interesting was the bass cutoff. The soundboard area was actually very small percentage wise compared with the size of the piano and other uprights. Unfortunately I was unable to rescue this piano from the Antiques Mafia who had it shipped off to Palermo in Italy. AF ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Delacour" <JD at Pianomaker.co.uk> To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org> Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 7:40 PM Subject: RE: 3 layer overstrung piano > At 17:48 -0700 25/10/07, you wrote: > >>I don't suppose you can come up with another picture of that lowest >>(mono-chord) bass bridge.... >> >>Del >> >>(PS. At least Niemeyer didn't run any of the wrapped strings through >>another bridge as did our old friend, Wm. Knabe.) > > I have seen Neumeyer uprights with FIVE different string planes! > > "Double overstrung" pianos were made by quite a few German and > English makers, but the most interesting DOS I have see was made by > the Danish firm of Petersen, who had only one bass bridge from which > square steel pillars rose, slotted at an angle for the string > termination. The lowest 10 strings ran through taller pillars on the > right-hand side of the bridge. This piano was 4'9" long and the > power and quality of the bass was astonishing. The piano is not far > away and I'd take some pictures if it werent for the fact that the > client is a pain in the butt and would be wanting to have this and > that made better. > > JD > > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20071027/dc161c19/attachment-0001.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 125557 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20071027/dc161c19/attachment-0002.jpe -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 114506 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20071027/dc161c19/attachment-0003.jpe
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