At 1:28 PM -0700 4/26/03, David Love wrote:
> what is the basic
>technique when you lay out a new pattern on a newly made or laid out
>bridge to insure that the strings line up with the guide rails and such.
You're talking the damper guide rail, right? And a side to side shift
in note spacing (alright, RH string in a trichord plain, LH bi-chord
string in the bass) Which would get shifted because the
notching/pinning on the bridge was shifted. How much room would be to
shift (especially if the speaking length was being held steady)?
3/16"? Certainly not 1/4". Divide that by 7 or at the most 8 (the
fraction of the entire speaking length that is the distance from the
'graph to the damper wire) and you don't have much to worry about.
Easily fixed with a little wire bending.
Maybe I've misread the entire question, but I don't see where the
error is going to develop which will be significant at the DGR.
Bill Ballard RPT
NH Chapter, P.T.G.
"I gotta go ta woik...."
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