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Bridge Caps
#641768 12/08/04 12:19 PM
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I was prepping a coule of Yamaha C5s in a room which has good lighting this week (as opposed to the dungeon I usually work in) and I noticed that the bridge cap for the treble section was a different colour to the rest of the bridge. Turns out they use Boxwood for the top section but Maple for the rest of the bridge/s. Can anyone tell me the advantage of Boxwood for this section. I assume it's something to do with the higher frequencies and the density of the timber?

I realise they've probably been doing it this way for a while, but I've never seen the bridge in decent lighting before frown

Greg

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#641769 12/08/04 12:23 PM
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CPS, your assumptions are correct.

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#641770 12/19/04 03:40 PM
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Yeah, and you should have seen me the first time I noticed that.And,,, there's that diagonal line that looks like a crack about in the C6 section

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