Re: Flatwound vs. Roundwound bridge?
Originally Posted by
Explorer
...In areas where people are wiilling to try womeing outside a fixed and limited idea...
I tried womeing a time or two; musta been in the wrong area for that...
But seriously, yeah, you could want to have a fixed bridge installed on your mandolin, for an unspecified reason (Ovation/Applause mandolins have fixed pin bridges, after all).
I would assume someone who wanted to have the floating bridge replaced with a fixed, glued bridge, would have experience with the instrument, and a clear idea of what the change would be, and why. That person wouldn't accept the "luthier's" statement that different bridges were needed for flat-wound and round-wound strings, which seems to make no sense to me -- what characteristics of the different string types would require different bridge styles?
IMHO more info needed, and I hope the OP will chime in with more details.
Allen Hopkins
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