Now here is an interesting thought

[Ric Brekne]

Hi folks

I have gotten a bit deeper into this old Bluthner of mine and  noticed something I thought might be worth a few lines.

The tenor and bass registers of this old grand have their front terminations in a bridge complete with front  and back bridge pins embedded into the pin block. The metal cover for the pinblock is cutout to accomodate these two bridges.  The pinblock then in turn is coupled directly to the belly rail allowing a direct route from these two bridges back into the soundboard. 

Now I am aware that whatever vibrations going through this way are going to be limited... but it struck me that they could be significant enough to yeild a positive contribution to the overall amount of string energy that ultimately gets transfered to the sound board.  And I was interested in what ever thoughts any of you might have on the matter.

Cheers
RicB