Ron said: "I suspect that the current shift una corda prevailed more because it was REALLY CHEAP and easy to build in, rather than it's wonderful tone and timbre manipulation potential. Like the pinned bridge string termination. It is left as an exercise of the casual browser to invent a justification after the fact of why the survivor is maybe superior, and the justification is based on what we are used to seeing, which is the cheaply produced survivor." Ron, The fact remains that the Unichorda came before this rather strange configuration. It was something "new" at the time of it's inception, which was something from the Harpsichord technology of the the time. This Thang on the Jesse French was a whole different animal, and I suspect it was one of those Edsel ideas that didn't fly very well up against the existing Left Pedal/Unichorda. Don't think "Cheap" had a damned thing to do with it. Of course, you could, (and probably will), argue otherwise.<G> That's my take, Joe Joe Garrett, R.P.T. Captain of the Tool Police Squares R I
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