Steinway bridge laminations - the saga continues

[John Delacour]

At 07:42 19/09/01 -0500, Ron Nossaman wrote:


> >There is also an oldish (forget the date) Steinway patent for a bridge made
> >of alternating laminations of maple and fir or spruce....
> >JD
>
>I posted about that one recently. I don't know if the original idea made it
>into production either, but I assumed the switch was made to darker soft
>wood at some point to make the "feature" visible for the sales folk.

On both these Os the step at the end of the long bridge which would reveal 
the 'secret' was painted over at the factory with bronze plate lacquer 
apparently precisely to discourage prying eyes!  This has to be scraped off 
-- its ugly anyway.

JD