Actually, this bass bridge pin "stagger" makes perfect sense. I used a similar stagger in the Baldwin 248. If the other end of the strings terminate at nut (agraffe) pins, this stagger serves to make the strings of each unison of equal length, or closer to it. What does deserve ridicule is that the "notching" does not match the stagger. In fact, this could well be a copy of my design. If so, someone along the way got the bright idea to compress the unusually wide spacing between the unisons at the bridge, only to discover later that this left no room for proper notching. "No matter, we can save even more money by replacing the notches with a straight bevel." If this is the case, the design is further compromised by eliminating my laminated bridge cap. Frank Emerson ----- Original Message ----- From: Jack Houweling To: Pianotech List Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 8:20 PM Subject: [pianotech] freak of nature Here is the latest freak of nature I saw. Brand new Chinese piano with "stagger stagger pins". Regards, Jack Houweling -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100726/57713608/attachment.htm>
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