<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1400" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: = Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=rol= e_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 7/30/2004 4:16:27 AM Pacific Standard Time, Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no writes:</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>Well, like I said its probably old stuff for many of you. Seemed to be <BR>reall= y pronounced tho in this piano, and I cant say I've noticed it <BR>before...= at least not this much. The width of the contact area varied <BR>quite a bit.= .. even more then the picture shows, and the width of the <BR>front vs back notched area varied even more... tapering down to a very <BR>short length = in the low treble and very high diskant. <BR><BR>So whats the reasoning behin= d these two things ?<BR><BR>I have a couple B's at the conservatory, one Ham= burg and one NY.  I <BR>guess I'll go have a look this afternoon and compare.<BR><BR>Cheers<BR>RicB</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV>     Ric</DIV> <DIV>    This is not a B sorry, Its a D with the uneven uniso= n string lengths & uneven rear aliquots.</DIV> <DIV>   The idea in my opinion is to increase sustain & c= olor at the expense of a little power. When I redo this type I put in even string= lengths. Baldwin also did this.</DIV> <DIV>  The idea at the ends of the bridge patches is to have less sever= e string length/tension  changes across the plate strut breaks on the bridge.</DIV> <DIV>   Dale</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>