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<font color="#800000">JimB-<br><br>
There always be a chance you be right, but I don't think this is that
time!! Does anyone have a good picture of an agraffe bridge
that could be posted to resolve this, soon to turn violent, debate?
Lacking such a photo, anyone with a relevant model in front of them who
would venture an opinion? As I am remembering, the net effect of
this config was to put a major ripple in the soundboard under the
bridge. The truth aside, what was the thinking behind this anyway,
and, if it worked, why did they stop?<br><br>
David Skolnik<br><br>
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</font>At 09:09 PM 2/20/2004 -0500, Jim Bryant wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite> > Than there are the
bridge agraffe thingees, like Ed's little Sohmer <br>
> grand which actually have 'upbearing'<br>
>in a portion of the scale and 'downbearing' in another portion
of the <br>
scale(JB)<br>
<br>
Not quite. As Ed Foote described it: (DAVID)<br><br>
Yes "quite" without regard to how Ed described it. Any
downbearing on the <br>
back of the agraffed bridge is a function of the upbearing on the agraffe
and <br>
not downbearing as we know and use the term. Ever seen a busted agraffe
down by <br>
the tuning web...Those little suckers just pop right on up there don't
they? <br>
Wellllllll that is what also happens on an agraffed bridge when one of
them <br>
break.<br>
Could it do that if in fact there were any true downbearing
present?</blockquote><br><br>
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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite> Should the bridge crack and
seperate from the ribs the upbearing will <br>
'raise' the entire bridge/sounding board in that area. Could it do that
if in fact <br>
there were any true downbearing present?</blockquote><br><br>
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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite> <br>
> This piano has agraffes on most of the treble bridge,
set in a cut-out<br>
>notch in the front half of the bridge, which allows the strings
to pass <br>
>through<br>
>the agraffe and also bear on the bridge itself.<br>
<br>
<<Thus, the upward pressure at the agraffe, in front, is
countered by the <br>
down pressure at the rear of the bridge.>><br>
Nope, I don't believe so, read the above......<br><br>
Jim Bryant (FL)<br>
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