Bridge Pins & Nega Bearing

[Ron Nossaman]

>   Ron
>    Perhaps I haven't said this in plain ol english but all the fine 
> examples of reverse crown set ups I've seen are with positive bearing 
> set ups pushing on a reverse crown board..  Sohmer, Beckwith,Bauer, & 
> others all positive. I've seen a few conventioanl set ups which thanks 
> to the collapsed boards,  although showing postive crown, were in fact 
> they were hanging big time on the bridge pins.
>  Dale
> 
> 
>     Maybe it's just me, but I can't help but wonder why anyone
>     would want to design a piano with negative crown and bearing.
>     I don't think of any benefit to doing so.

Dale,
This was in response to Bill, who WAS talking about designing 
a negative crown, negative bearing piano.
Ron N