Thanks for the post. Interesting work. Sounds like you were able to get pretty far along with it without going with a transition bridge. Here's a couple shots of the bass bridge on my Everett. Pretty hard to access the piano - my arm is stretched as far as it could go! I suppose you could move the bass bridge forward a couple/few millimeters, but not a whole lot. I really hadn't looked at this piano in many years. I just had a thought about the bass bridge apron and had to look - it doesn't have one! I hadn't realized that until just now. Did yours have an apron? Was your bass bridge originally further back than mine in these photos? With appropriate ribbing beneath, I should think cutting that rear edge of the panel loose would open things up nicely? I just measured the length of my Everett. Again, hard to get back there, but I measured 5' 3" without the lid - so with lid, 5' 3.5" would be about spot on with yours. What type of forward speaking length string termination does your little Everett have? I wonder if someone from Everett, between 1900 and 1917, heard other salespersons from other piano manufacturers bragging about how their 5' 3" grand pianos had longer bass string length and forward string termination agraffes like the famous maker in NY (assuming yours has agraffes). On a side note, I hate typing the word "agraffe" - I can never remember - one or two "G's" and one or two "F's"? Anyone? High end of bass bridge: Low end of bass bridge: Here's almost the whole bridge - just couldn't get any further back...... Terry Farrell On Nov 16, 2010, at 9:15 PM, Delwin D Fandrich wrote: > > I’ll try this again. I sent this earlier today but the electronic > gods apparently didn’t like it…. > > Terry, sounds like basically the same piano. This one was built in > 1917. I wrote the following elsewhere about this piano: > > Quote: > For some time I have been curious about this wire. SNIP > It should be interesting. > End quote > > The original location of the bass bridge was back a bit from where > it sounds like it is in your piano. I relocated it and it is now > probably about like yours—I’m not at the piano just now but the > backscale at A-1 is probably around 110 mm. I wonder if that was a > design change on mine or simply a mistake—there was quite a gap > between the bridge pins and the start of the wraps on the original > bass strings. Either way, it’s happy where it is now. > > But I’m still not all that happy with the low tenor and will > probably replace the lowest notes with Type 1 or Type 2 wire. Just > to see what happens. I have to do some recording and measuring on > the configuration I have right now first. All I have to date is > empirical observation; and we all know how fallible that can be. > > A couple of folks who participate on Pianotech have seen and heard > this piano; perhaps they will comment on how it plays and sounds to > them. > > ddf > > > > Delwin D Fandrich > Piano Design & Fabrication > 620 South Tower Avenue > Centralia, Washington 98531 USA > del at fandrichpiano.com > ddfandrich at gmail.com > Phone 360.736.7563 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20101117/68efc731/attachment-0001.htm> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: PB170032.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 170073 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20101117/68efc731/attachment-0003.jpg> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: PB170035.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 148202 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20101117/68efc731/attachment-0004.jpg> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: PB170037.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 177528 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20101117/68efc731/attachment-0005.jpg>
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