[CAUT] Bridge design/Pure sound wire

[Alan McCoy]

Boy, here's a case for someone sifting through those archives, editing it
judiciously and and putting on the CAUT site. Anyone up to the task? I'd
love to read it!

Alan

-- Alan McCoy, RPT
Eastern Washington University
amccoy@mail.ewu.edu
509-359-4627


> From: Ron Nossaman <rnossaman@cox.net>
> Reply-To: "College and University Technicians <caut@ptg.org>" <caut@ptg.org>
> Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 15:12:51 -0500
> To: "College and University Technicians <caut@ptg.org>" <caut@ptg.org>
> Subject: Re: [CAUT] Bridge design/Pure sound wire
> 
> :
>> Ron,
>> 
>> Thanks for the feedback. We are doing a new scale throughout. Juan is
>> doing that for me. The soundboard is going to be replaced.
>> 
>> Juan, as with many Europeans, seems to have very definite ideas about
>> friction, procedures, etc. I just take some of these with a grain of
>> salt, but I will try everything. Like polishing all friction points with
>> crocus cloth. (It didn't seem to do much.)
>> 
>> Ron, you are far beyond most of us in this area. I've shown the photos
>> of the "Nossaman D" to many technicians and to most of them it is like
>> Voodoo to redesign such things. I know you are close to Del and have
>> learned much from him and others over many years, but what do you
>> suggest as far as starting places to learn about bridge design, etc.?
>> Are there any written materials that you know of? Of course, I know this
>> type of "skill" can't be acquired by "book learnin', but there must be
>> something that one could study to better understand the theories. Any
>> advice?
>> 
>> Thanks again,
>> Jim Busby
> 
> Hi Jim,
> Pretty much all the information, secrets included, are in the
> Pianotech archives. Del started the whole thing, outlining basic
> principals of soundboard impedance, and it went from there. There's
> at least five books worth, scattered through the years since the
> inception of the list. Read and process the informational stuff
> first, and save the argumentative and counterproductive stuff for
> after you understand the basics and can put it into perspective.
> Then get into the molecules if you feel the need after hearing the
> results. There's no short path. You have to burn a lot of time, a
> pile of brain cells, and more than a little cash to make sense of
> it. It's not Voodoo, but it does cost sweat and blood. The biggest
> hurdle is getting over the idea that one can throw in a "feature" at
> random and make a predictable difference. Everything works together,
> and everything affects everything else.
> 
> Ron N
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