<br><br> <div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/21/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">John Delacour</b> <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:JD@pianomaker.co.uk" target="_blank">JD@pianomaker.co.uk </a>> wrote:</span> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">At 10:53 pm +0100 21/8/07, David Boyce wrote:<br><br>>I was asked to examine this Bechstein yesterday, No 80884. Straight <br>>strung upright.  Quite a hockey-stick!<br><br>I'll try to remember to take a picture of the bridge on a 1909 Lipp<br>straight strung I got a couple of weeks ago.  I think the arrangement<br>is possibly even more extreme.  It is a wonderful piano although it <br>is not any taller than the overstrung they made at the same time, of<br>which I have two.<br><br><br>>What terms do you use for the offset between the bridge and the<br>>soundboard - I've heard it called an Apron and a Skirt.  Any other <br>>terms?<br><br>I call it the apron.<br><br>JD<br><br>>Attachment converted: MacMini:Bechstein 80884.JPG (JPEG/«IC») (00EC7800)<br>>Attachment converted: MacMini:Bechstein bridge with apron.JPG<br>>(JPEG/«IC») (00EC7802) <br><br><br><br><br>Manufacturers refer to it as a cantilever bass bridge, yeah I read the literature, it's fun to see what they're telling the public! LOL!!</blockquote> <div> </div> <div>I do have to say that's the biggest one I've ever seen!</div> <div> </div> <div>Mike</div></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Michael Magness <br>Magness Piano Service<br>608-786-4404<br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.ifixpianos.com/" target="_blank">www.IFixPianos.com </a><br>email <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:mike@ifixpianos.com" target="_blank">mike@ifixpianos.com</a>