<!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 6.00.2900.2668" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello list.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This old 1864 Pleyel (again) has many = features which I think are quite straight forward.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The rim and the ribs are shaped so = there is nearly no crown in the bass bridge regio, few in the tenor, lots in the alto = and again less in the high trebble.  In the original setting, downbearing = followed this pattern : nearly no on the bass bridge, few on the low long bridge, = lots in the trebble and less again in the high trebble.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>My question is : in such an = arrangement, can we set more downbearing in this alto area than if the downbearing were spread = on the whole scale ?  How much could I put there ?  For now, after = soundboard shimming, there are as much as three graduations on the Lowell gauge, in = front bearing and in rear bearing.  I'm used to consider this quite = much.  Any opinions ?</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Best regards,</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Stéphane = Collin.</FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML>