I guess it all depends on the design. I have seen some interesting things done with adjustable bridges to make them work and minimise the dampening effect. The main difficulty I would see is that on a luthier built instrument there are going to be variances that mean what works for one instrument may not work exactly the same on another. But if someone can overcome that then I can see them being popular.
Fi -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Simon Wascher Sent: Thursday, 15 May 2008 8:42 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [HG] Adjustable bridge Hello, Am 15.05.2008 um 00:00 schrieb Marsbar: > The problem will always be the change in the sound transmission > through the > bridge. The moment you add a couple of metal dohickey's to the > bridge you > are going to dampen it. I use the adjustable bridge that Wolfgang Weichselbaumer offers on my 1999 Alto for about half a year now. I did not experience any adititional damping that is more than the damping by the paper I used before. This minimal damping cant weight out the perfection in pressure balance I can have since. The sound got better in my oppinion. As Matthias Loibner mentioned before the system also allows the bridge to be more relaxed via minimized bending of the bridge due to the systems joints. Simon
