My Sohmer is one like that you encountered Don...agraffes in the top 2 sections. Aesthetically, it has very clean lines, but suffers from acoustical anemia. On the other hand, maybe it just has too much brass..... Otto ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Mannino" <dmannino@kawaius.com> To: "'College and University Technicians'" <caut@ptg.org> Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 7:42 AM Subject: RE: Agraffes on Bridge > Jim, > > I see - obviously a different scale completely. Nevertheless, my point is > that the agraffes do lead to a substantially brighter tone, and this is made > very obvious on those models where the agraffes stop at the treble break. > > Don Mannino RPT > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: caut-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:caut-bounces@ptg.org] On > > Behalf Of James Ellis > > Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 1:57 PM > > To: caut@ptg.org > > Subject: Agraffes on Bridge > > > > > > Don, (Mannino) > > > > You and I are apparently talking about two different scales. > > In the scale I am talking about, the bridge agraffes did not > > stop at the treble break, but went the entire length of the > > main bridge all the way up to #88. The problem was in the > > top three octaves. By contrast, the strings at the low end > > of the bridge had relatively low tension. The relative > > tension along the main bridge went from one extreme to the other. > > > > Thanks to all for your comments. > > > > Jim Ellis > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > caut list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives > > > > > _______________________________________________ > caut list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives
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