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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> I find it interesting to, =
instead of looking
at the back scale, look at where the bridge is on the soundboard. You'll =
get
much better tone when the bridge isn't right on the rim. Duh, you all =
knew that,
didn't you?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Kevin.</FONT></DIV>
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black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=RNossaman@cox.net href="mailto:RNossaman@cox.net">Ron =
Nossaman</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A =
title=pianotech@ptg.org
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, July 05, 2003 =
9:21
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Short
backscales</DIV>>The bass section has the shortest backscale I've =
ever seen
and the tone in <BR>>the bass is abominable,
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IMO.<BR>><BR>>  =
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John<BR><BR>Amazing! And the whole length of the bridge too, instead =
of just
the last <BR>half dozen strings. That's pretty relentless. The tenor =
looks to
have a <BR>decent length back scale, and there's room to move the bass =
bridge
forward <BR>far enough to just about double it's back scale. But they
didn't.<BR><BR>Ron N<BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>