On 9/20/2010 4:53 PM, John Delacour wrote: > Hmm. You're all talking exclusively of horizontally laminated bridges I > presume and not vertically laminated as used by Steinway? Yes. >I'd need to > have more detailed evidence and analysis than a few expressions of > opinion to convince me... Of course you would. > ... but with regard to the Delignit bridge-capping material, I'd like to > hear a fuller description of this than I see in Schaff's catalogue. Is > it of beech? How thick are the laminations? Is the wood impregnated to > render it harder? I don't like the Delignit bridge capping material. It's not dense and hard enough for me, and I think it's ugly. I make my own capping, with 8 layers of epoxy impregnated maple veneer. > When you cap the bridge with the Delignit stuff do you do the whole > bridge or just the top section plus? Even the very finest of > piano-makers from the good old days seem to have seen no virtue in using > the harder bridge top below a certain point in the scale. Good old days notwithstanding, I use my laminated capping throughout for dimensional (therefor tuning) stability, as well as tonal concerns. Ron N
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