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Originally Posted by printer2
Ladder braced guitars do not sound like Martins and the difference is not the bridge but the bracing. Maybe I am missing what you are saying.
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It's the whole system... not just the bridge, which there seems to be a fixation on. Gibsons are x-braced, and have similar tone bars; even they don't sound like Martin. A Somogyi is x-braced, and many of them have similar tone bars, yet they sound anything but similar other than they're steel-string guitars.
While the strings do cause a "translation" of the bridge, it is the bridge that pulls the back part of the top into some form of bulge or deformation, and it is said back part of the bridge that is resisting said pull of the bridge. But in my opinion, doing anything to the bridge, without consideration of the other parts of the top, is curing the symptoms, not the causations.