Soundboard Thoughts of Marilyn Monroe

[Delwin D Fandrich]

David ilvedson wrote:

> > From:          Stephen Birkett <birketts@wright.aps.uoguelph.ca>
> > Subject:       Re: Re[4]: Soundboard Thoughts of Marilyn Monroe
> > To:            pianotech@ptg.org
> > Date:          Thu, 11 Dec 1997 12:44:31 -0500 (EST)
> > Reply-to:      pianotech@ptg.org
>
> I was under the impression that because we have fewer big trees
> for soundboards that boards required more small panels when
> glueing up.  In the past fewer panels were required as the trees
> were bigger...?Doesn't this make difference?  More glue joints?
>
> David ilvedson, RPT
> Pacifica, CA
> ------------------------------

Yes, these panels may have more glue joints, but it doesn't matter. The old fear was that sound would travel at a different
rate through the glue joint than it would through the wood. This is a non-problem. If it were, consider the problem sound
would have getting through the different densities found in earlywood vs. latewood. As long as the glue joints are
structurally sound, and these days there is no reason why they should not be, they are transparent to the process.

-- ddf