Hi Del, The piano is a Steinberg. I also had visions of a Rippen, and then suddenly a nightmare...... Lindner! I didn't notice any floating soundboard in the bass, but I will check again next Tuesday on my once a week commute to the West Coast. Only 45 minutes on the fast train (125 mph) from east coast to west coast. Now how many piano techs do you know who travel that fast to work? I was a bit reluctant to divulge the name of the piano because it has other serious problems which I will tell the list about later. Enjoy your travels. Alan ----- Original Message ----- From: Delwin D Fandrich To: forsyth93 at btinternet.com Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 2:11 PM Subject: Floating bridge.... Alan -- I'm out of the country just now and cannot respond to pianotech but I'm curious; is this a Perzina piano? If so, they have borrowed quite a few ideas from the now defunct Rippen pianos. Including the floating soundboard. That is, the lower part of the soundboard is not connected directly to the back structure. It would be this feature that accounts for the bass tone, not the slotted bass bridge cantilever. Regards, ddf -- Delwin D Fandrich Piano Design & Fabrication Consultant 620 South Tower Avenue Centralia, Washington 98531 USA Email ddfandrich at gmail.com Tel 360 736 7563 Cell 360 388 6525 Fax 360 736 5239 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090610/59fff957/attachment.htm>
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