Del, James, At 07:27 PM 11/1/98 -0800, you wrote: >Since soundboards don't amplify, we can rule out amplification as a possible >function of this device. If memory serves -- and it's been quite a few years >since I've seen a Wurlitzer grand -- this device both stiffened and mass loaded >the soundboard in the region around the lower portion of the tenor bridge. >Since this area is often too floppy it accepts energy from the bridge at a >faster rate than is desirable. This device slowed the transfer of energy, thus >extending the sustain time of the tenor unisons leading down to the bass/tenor >break. That is the explanation that was given to me some years ago by one of CFS's proteges. Horace
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