Thank you, David! My measurements, as well. That "bears" on my question to Frank about the "argument" for equal bearing on the front and back. Exactly how it bears is the next question. Paul -----Original Message----- From: David Love <davidlovepianos at comcast.net> To: pianotech at ptg.org Sent: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 4:17 pm Subject: Re: [pianotech] Downbearing FWIW Since I've been taking off bridge caps in one piece I've noticed that (at least on Steinways) the bridge cap is almost always thicker in the front by about 1 mm than in the back. That's with the bridge body being equal height front to back which suggests that someone was targeting erring on the side of positive front bearing even if front and back were not equal. That would also agree with pre teardown measurements. David Love www.davidlovepianos.com -----Original Message----- From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Ron Nossaman Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2008 8:39 AM To: pianotech at ptg.org Subject: Re: [pianotech] Downbearing > While equal front/back bearing is a good goal, I'd say more important is > that the front has positive bearing. A slight favoring of the front of the > bridge as a hedge against ending up with a back positive and front negative > is, in my view, the prudent approach. > > David Love Definitely. Ron N -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech_ptg.org/attachments/20081123/98de5225/attachment-0001.html>
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