I use the adjustable bridge on my Weichselbaumer alto from about 9 months ago. I did not notice sound dampening or quality decrease. On the other hand, you get many advantages: get rid of the paper shims and can change the bridge to wheel distance to get a better upper octave tuning. About teh question regarding using it with a three or four string instrument, it is convenient to fit the string slots in order to adjust them to the wheel circunference and string gauge to get a good performance of the system. It works perfect for me.
Regards, Oscar. 2008/5/15 Marsbar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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 > > > >
