Soundboard Deflection and Pitch Change / was Downbearing

[Ric Brekne]

Is this standard practice for most rebuilders ? I would placing all the 
downwards force on one or the other edge of the bridge would be asking 
for problems.. i.e. bridge rolling etc.  What is the benefit to doing it 
this way ?

Thanks
RicB

At 8:36 pm +0200 16/8/06, Ric Brekne wrote:

 >How do you go about equalizing the downward force the string places
 >on the bridges front and back edges ? Or do you do this at all ?

JD resoponds

Why would you want to?  *Ideally, in my view, the top of the bridge
should be parallel, when the piano is up to pitch and well settled,
with the length of string beyond the bridge so that the only angle in
the string is where the speaking length begins, at the front pin.
That is to say that the downward pressure at this point is the
greatest.*

JD