Hello! Can anyone tell me please why in some (overstrung) pianos the bass bridge is quite long, (because the bass strings fan out, I mean, the space between the bass strings is wider at the bridge than at the agraffes), while in other pianos the bass strings run parallel to eachother and the bass bridge is therefore shorter. Is there any advantage with one of the methods ot the other? Curiously, I've seen both types in similar Bechstein painos (both two meters long, one from 1887, with the long bass bridge, one from 1904, with the short bass bridge). Calin Tantareanu ---------------------------------------------------- e-mail: dnu@fx.ro http://calintantareanu.tripod.com ----------------------------------------------------
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