To be more precise, I guess it's a twisting force at the bridge.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/3/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Farrell</b> <<a href="mailto:mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com">mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Where do you get any sideways tension? As long as
the backscale is roughly parallel with the speaking length, the bridge will not
be tensioning or compressing the soundboard in any manner.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Terry Farrell</font></div></div><div style="direction: ltr;"><span class="e" id="q_10afacc0ff643bfe_1">
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<b>From:</b>
<a title="matrasimca@gmail.com" href="mailto:matrasimca@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">Kazuo
Yoshizaki</a> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"> </div>This was what I heard from a piano
tuner in Paris who asked Mr. Paulello about it. There may be something lost in
translation, but I just assume anything that adds stress to the board inhibits
the movement of the board. If you have no downbearing, no mass and no tension
sideways, the board moves more freely, doesn't it? (Of course that is not
realistic.)<br><br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/2/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Ron
Nossaman</b> <<a href="mailto:rnossaman@cox.net" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">rnossaman@cox.net</a>>
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Yes, the string bearing is reversed, but the concept behind is that
you<br>> don't have tension sideways on the bridge, which helps the
soundboard<br>> vibrate more freely.<br>><br>> Yoshi<br><br><br>And
how does that work? In my world, the soundboard isn't<br>changed by the
string termination at the bridge, and will<br>vibrate pretty much the same
with either system. The real<br>difference is in the mass on the bridge
which, if anything, <br>will impede the vibrational freedom (amplitude, in
this case)<br>of the soundboard assembly by lowering it's
resonant<br>frequency, increasing it's mechanical impedance, and
extending<br>sustain.<br>Ron
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