This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Re: rear string lengthsAh, Isaac, how could you have possibly missed one = of my many tirades against the use of bridge cantilevers (a more = descriptive word than apron)? I've written about these atrocities = numerous times.=20 There is never a good reason for incorporating these hideous devices = into a piano design, large or small. They can always be designed out of = the system. It all started with the equally bad notion that the speaking = length of A-1 must always be as long as possible -- especially in short = pianos. I've not time just now but I'll look up one of the pieces I've written = and email it to you privately along with a drawing that illustrates the = stresses these things place on the soundboard. Del ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Isaac OLEG=20 To: Pianotech=20 Sent: December 06, 2002 11:23 AM Subject: RE: rear string lengths - APRON Is not the use of an apron (suspended bass bridge) and short back = scale allow for maximum string length on shorter grand's.? Then, may the bearing be apparently higher ? (because the actual = pressure of the bridge on the soundboard is in fact far away from the = pins ? The little Gaveau I have in mind here is having a lot of bearing = apparently on the bass bridge, but there is an apron, and it does not = seem to lock the system. regards. Isaac OLEG ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/94/1b/76/46/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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