The bridge in your photo is about exactly where mine ended up. You cheated. I toyed with cutting the bass loose, but didn't. It works pretty well without it. I was trying to keep things simple; I wanted every done to be things the average rebuilder could do without fear and trepidation. The front string termination is the same throughout. The bass and tenor section have removable capo tastro bars, the treble capo tastro is part of the casting. The termination angles and lengths are pretty much the same through each section. Thankfully no attempt was made to "tune" the string duplex segments-which helps to account for its excellent sustain through the killer octave region. See the attached photos. I measured the length of mine (with the lid removed) from the tail to a vertical line dropped down in front of the keybed. No molding on the upper part of the rim. Could have stretched the keybed, though. On a side note; agrafe is spelled with one "g" and one "f" and capo tastro is spelled "capo tastro." 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 From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Terry Farrell Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2010 5:07 AM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] Little Everett Grands - was: Heller bass strings 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? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20101117/0609b873/attachment-0001.htm> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: IMG_1301x.JPG Type: image/jpeg Size: 164495 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20101117/0609b873/attachment-0003.jpeg> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: IMG_1295x.JPG Type: image/jpeg Size: 178859 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20101117/0609b873/attachment-0004.jpeg> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: IMG_1296x.JPG Type: image/jpeg Size: 148821 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20101117/0609b873/attachment-0005.jpeg>
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