[pianotech] Broadwood Barless Grand

[Delwin D Fandrich]

Thanks for posting the pictures. I've not  had a lot of experience with
these pianos but.

 

I've long been curious about the motivation behind the concept. The most
often heard explanation is that by leaving the frame (or plate) struts out
the scale can be continuous. But, of course, they are not continuous. At
least none of the barless grands I've examined have had continuous bridges.
Look at the picture that shows most of the strings and you can see a jog
toward middle of the tenor bridge-turns out they needed an action bracket
there so it was still necessary to put in a gap. Might has well have a strut
if you're going to have a gap of about the same width anyway. And a strut
running just to the right of the top bass strings doesn't add any width
either. You need a gap there for dampers anyway if you're going to
cross-string the thing. So, again, you might as well have the strut.

 

Regardless, they sure look cool.

 

ddf

 

Delwin D Fandrich

Piano Design & Fabrication

6939 Foothill Court SW, Olympia, Washington 98512 USA

Phone  360.515.0119 - Cell  360.388.6525

del at fandrichpiano.com  <mailto:del at fandrichpiano.com> - ddfandrich at gmail.com

 

From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of David Boyce
Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2011 1:54 PM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: [pianotech] Broadwood Barless Grand

 

I promised some more pics of the Broadwood Barless Grand I was asked to look
at a few weeks ago.  Here they are. I would have liked to take the lid off,
but the hinges did not have extract-able pins and it was late. I suspect the
hinges were of the type where the pin is fixed in one half and slides into
the other half, but although I tried to nudge the lid around, nothing would
budge,and it was to late in the evening to do more.

Am sending in a couple of posts so as not to exceed file size.

Best regards,

David. 

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