Re: Tenor Guitar Bridge Question
Originally Posted by
MoreThanQuinn
... some instruments secure the bridge purely with the tension of the strings.
That's typical of arch-top instruments w/ "floating" bridge, that need some sort of tailpiece to attach the string ends to. Flat-top instruments (mando or guitar) most often either have holes w/ bridge pins (typical of steel strings) or holes to tie into (classical w/ nylon strings), normally with the bridge glued in place.
There are permutatoins, a too-common one being the flat-top junker "repaired" by adding a tailpiece, generally resulting in a loose bridge w/ too little downforce to be effective. But at least most such instruments already sounded bad before the ineffective repair!
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