Robin Hufford wrote: > I don't know that I would agree that the bell nosebolt sings. My > understanding was that it was designed to be able to allow the plate to > be forced down to follow the board should it flatten and improve the > sound thereby. Regards, Robin Hufford > This jives well with what the head man at at Hamburg had to say, and it fits well enough with the patent for sure. That being said I cant help but think Delwin is correct in observing that the apparatus also couples the mass of the rim to the plate, and the results seem predictable enough. I imagine there is a bit of this and a bit of that when it comes down to it, but I do like the mass coupling explanation. -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. UiB, Bergen, Norway mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html
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