Theres less wood supporting the pin & integrity of the bridge top. ?Dale What's the difference between leaning the pin out a bit and just cutting the notch just back of pin center? David Love www.davidlovepianos.com PAULREVENKOJONES at aol.com wrote: > And I am particularly taken with the idea of the compound angle from the > perspective you describe--to achieve as efficient a lock as possible, > and to "offset" the bisecting vector. I've always heard the explanation Frank offers for that outward lean, and it always seemed reasonable. But when you really look at it, the offset angle would be bisected by the pins leaning back over the bridge instead of out and away from it. Wouldn't it? Ron N -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20081226/2205f59c/attachment-0001.html>
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