This is much wrong.
I cannot say much.
Is it from a reputed brand? Incompétence, I would say.
You are right -- there was a lot wrong with the design of that bridge.
There was no "dogleg" (or offset) in the curve of the bridge across the scale break. The tensions on the treble side were reasonable but on the tenor side they were very high. Upwards of 90 kgf if memory serves.
For many years it was worse but at some point in that model's design history someone had made an attempt to improve the scaling without building a proper bridge. They did this by simply offsetting the pins on each side of the scale break as can be seen in the last of the photos. As you can see the bridge pins right next to the scale break are
very close together.
Bridge failure was fairly common on pianos using this scale. During the late 1980s I redesigned that scale and one of the battles I had with management was over the bridge; I wanted to modify it by putting a dogleg in there so the scale tensions could be equalized across the break but that made the bridge a little more expensive to build.
In the end we compromised -- I got some of the offset I wanted but not all of it. They were still able to make new bridge design on the same equipment. At best I can say that the new design is considerably less bad than the original. Which is not to say it was great.
ddf
