Bechstein bridge

[John Delacour]

At 10:53 pm +0100 21/8/07, David Boyce wrote:

>I was asked to examine this Bechstein yesterday, No 80884. Straight 
>strung upright.  Quite a hockey-stick!

I'll try to remember to take a picture of the bridge on a 1909 Lipp 
straight strung I got a couple of weeks ago.  I think the arrangement 
is possibly even more extreme.  It is a wonderful piano although it 
is not any taller than the overstrung they made at the same time, of 
which I have two.


>What terms do you use for the offset between the bridge and the 
>soundboard - I've heard it called an Apron and a Skirt.  Any other 
>terms?

I call it the apron.

JD

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