Nice, unusual but sadly ruined/damaged bridge

[Byrdbop]

Just thought I would share it here.  It has rabbit ears so might suit a folk fiddle.  Someone cut it down I presume to fit a fiddle with a low neck.  

 

[Andreas Preuss]

Wonder who invented this design. But I vaguely remember having seen something like this before.

[jacobsaunders]

It was a  normal blank avaliable in the usual catalogues under the name "Tonpracht"

 

P.S. Ton = Sound

Pracht = Splendour

[Blank face]

I once had a small collection of these, beside other "special" bridges. One of the rabbit ears bridges is stamped "Meisterklang", the other Tonpracht. You can find them sometimes in old violin cases, or maybe in Ebay.

[Michael_Molnar]

LSD will do it to any maker.

[JoeDeF]

I would guess that the extra "ears" are in effect resonators designed to suck up and dissipate high frequencies before they get to the corpus, to mellow out the sound. Is that correct?

[Addie]

[David Burgess]

That bridge was probably fine, until someone made the mistake of putting strings on it.

[Thomas Coleman]

4 hours ago, Michael_Molnar said:

LSD will do it to any maker.

 

1 hour ago, Addie said:

 

55 minutes ago, David Burgess said:

That bridge was probably fine, until someone made the mistake of putting strings on it.

Hahaha!

[jezzupe]

looks like a regular blank that was put on a low projection "fiddle", shaved down to get low action, shaved flatish symmetrical  to play crossover double stops, and all of that before the acid

[Violadamore]

Whatever their deficiencies in deciding how to apply them, someone had excellent bridge carving skills.