bridge Agraffes

[S. Brady]

On Tue, 9 Apr 1996 JIMRPT@aol.com wrote:

> Ken;
> "I believe I tuned a Sohmer grand (at least I think it was a Sohmer) that had
> agraffes on the bridge."
>
> You are probably right. Sohmer made the model 9B with agraffes on the bridge.
> I just rebuilt one recently, the case turned out very nice, and the sound was
> at least acceptable, though certainly not anywhere near performance quality.
> Jim Bryant (FL)

      About a year and a half ago, I rebuilt one of these and converted
to a conventional, notched and pinned bridge cap. It was a very
interesting project (read: a lot of work) because the agraffe bridge is an
upbearing system, and I converted it to a conventional downbearing system.
In addition, the pinblock was tapered from stretcher to flange *and* from
treble to bass. It sounds a lot better now, but I'm still not sure whether
it was worth it or not.



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