<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <html><head><style type="text/css"></style><title>Re: New Topic: Bass Cantilever Bridges</title></head><body> <div>At 12:41 PM +0000 7/3/04, Michael Gamble wrote:</div> <blockquote type="cite" cite><br></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">Hello List and Calin T who said (inter alia):</font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">"3. Use a floating soundboard - which I think is the most useful approach. It was used by many French piano makers, especially Pleyel. Ron Overs has a really interesting article on his about a Yamaha grand where he floated the bass area of the soundboard."</font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">    Yes, I have a feeling that Ibach used the floating soundboard principle in their "double-overstrung" 5ft. +- grands. Thanks for the info. I am hoping now that Ron O. will comment - or give me directions to the article you mention.</font></blockquote> <div><br></div> <div>The article is at;</div> <div><br></div> <div>http://overspianos.com.au/g2.html</div> <div><br></div> <div>This page has links within the text which will take you off to satellite pages relating to the same project. Mind you, I haven't re-read it to check that I still agree with what I wrote back in 2001.</div> <div><br></div> <div>Ron O.</div> <x-sigsep><pre>-- </pre></x-sigsep> <div><font face="Times New Roman" size="+1" color="#0000FF"><b>OVERS PIANOS - SYDNEY</b></font></div> <div><font color="#000000"><i>   </i></font><font color="#0000FF"><i>Grand Piano Manufacturers</i></font><font color="#000000"><br> _______________________</font></div> <div><font size="-2" color="#000000"><br> </font><font color="#000000">Web http://overspianos.com.au</font></div> <div><font color="#000000">mailto:info@overspianos.com.au<br> _______________________</font></div> </body> </html>