Bridges & Tailpieces
Crucianelli: Rapples like most roller bridges. Interesting mounting on the body.
Crucianelli - Italy
Davoli-Wandré Tailpiece - quite elegant!
Duesenberg Wrap Around Bridge:
Bolt distance 74,4mm to replace Tunamatic bridges!
Adjustable string spacing. Found on old Framus and Guild guitars.
Galanti: Well thought out, badly executed. Rapples too!
Gemelli: A lot of metal and rapping!
Gretsch Tailpioece - made in Germany
Guild guitar with Hagstroem hardware and a foldable stand in its back
Guild Tailpiece - made in Germany
Hagstroem bridge - adjustable in all direction by 2 screws for each saddle
Hoefner etc.: Pieces of fret wire in slots. Simple, but effective.
Hopf Telstar-Hardware
Roller Tunamatic
Vintage Tunamatic with braces. Why didn't they stay with the little feathers?
Germany: Jazz Guitar Bridge, Rosewood
Duesenberg Wrap Around Bridge from 1996!
Müller Bass Bridge with adjustable string spacing
Lap Steel Bridge
göldo 12-String Bridge with 12 individually adjustable saddles!
göldo Tunamatic with sintered stainless steel saddles!
göldo / Duesenberg Dobro-Bender
göldo / Duesenberg Dobro-Bender
göldo Piezo Bridge
Rickenbacker Bridge
Italy: for very cheap!
Jacobacci: sliding rolls. Good thinking! Elaborate.
Germany: sliding, " clamped" plastic saddles
Germany: ROKO-Bridge. Works!
Lenny Pogans Transposer-Tailpiece.
Does not really transpose.
Meazzi - Italy: why not?
Meazzi - Italy: why not?
Melita Bridge: movable plastic saddles, which are clamped from above after positioning. Great idea, but the saddles are much too low and the clamping screws are too high, so that palm damping is difficult to painful.
Müller Palm-Bender-Bridge
ROKO - Germany: Hoefner Bridge with sliding plastic saddles.
SUPRO: not so super!
Taylor: A lot of effort, but something different!
Teye Bridge: huge design!
göldo - The Wrapper Tailüpiece
Vox - Italy: eieiei
Wandré bass tailpiece
Wandré pickguard with integrated bridge. Genious octave adjustment!
Wandre Bridge: crazy idea! The strings run underneath through holes in the adjustable saddle "reeds".
Wandré Bridge: crazy construction with staggered adjusting wheels, embedded in a plastic part.
Wandré design - genious!
Wandré Trapeze - elegant!
Wandré Trapeze - even more elegant!
göldo Wrapper-Tailpiece
Zemaitis: huge design