[CAUT] Stuart & Son on NPR

Ron Nossaman rnossaman at cox.net
Tue Jan 18 21:11:16 MST 2011


On 1/18/2011 10:03 PM, Fred Sturm wrote:
> On Jan 18, 2011, at 8:16 PM, Ron Nossaman wrote:
>>
>> This has been addressed on Pianotech (that other list). An additional
>> kilo of agraffe mass on the bridge will increase sustain and change
>> the tonal envelope without any inherently magical properties of the
>> agraffe.
>> Ron N
>
>
> Could be, but that doesn't explain how putting some agraffes on a
> standard bridge makes _those_ unisons sustain so much better than the
> standard neighbors, as in the Baldwin retrofit shown I think at Grand
> Rapids. Or did that other list address that seeming magic as well?
> Regards,
> Fred Sturm

I haven't seen, heard, nor heard of that one. Odd that it hasn't been 
mentioned before now. I've apparently missed something.
Ron N


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