<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.5730.11" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bottomMargin=7 bgColor=#ffffff leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7> <DIV>Hi all doglegs busters.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I had a brilliant idea concerning bridge doglegs.</DIV> <DIV>Why not fitting two bridges in the place of the one long bridge, so it is easy to locate those in order to avoid the string length problem at the strut ?  What would be the drawback ?</DIV> <DIV>I suppose that if this was not a stupid idea, manufacturers would have done this.  But I'd like to understand why not.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Best regards.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Stéphane Collin.</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=Erwinspiano@aol.com href="mailto:Erwinspiano@aol.com">Erwinspiano@aol.com</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, December 19, 2006 2:40 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Bridge Doglegs, was: Spreadsheet info / Jason Kanter</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV> <DIV>  <STRONG><EM>Terry</EM></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><EM>  Probably just cost more.  Bottom line thinking you know.</EM></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><EM>  Dale</EM></STRONG></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>To what advantage is minimizing the bridge dogleg? If the bridge needs a 30 <BR>mm offset to maintain target speaking length progression, then why not just <BR>build the bridge with a 30 mm offset? What's the problem?<BR><BR>Terry Farrell</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></BODY></HTML>