Recrowning

[Richard Moody]

> The fallacy is that the bridges so repaired were now holding the
soundboard
> up instead of the soundboard supporting the bridges.

Good point.  Which leads to, , what holds up the soundboard ?

	Which brings to mind the Tension Resonator  invented by Richard
Gertz and used in Mason and Hamlin grand pianos.   Never could figure
out where "resonator" came from or denotes.  OR why no one else used
it.

	Upon thinking of wedging the bridge, I might think instead of
wedging the sound board ribs in "stratigic" places. Please,  this is
only a "thought experiment" and if it were to happen, could only be
on an instrument I own, and would keep for ten years as one of a
rental fleet for "one nite stands", unless the effort was totally
fruitless.

	Please reply svp to this preposterous idea .  No use in inventing
the wheel for the third time.

	When I was an apprentice, I could have mistaken a derisive
discussion for a sincere one. But how could the Masters have known?

Richard Moody

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> From: Ted_Sambell@BanffCentre.AB.CA
> To: pianotech <pianotech@byu.edu>
> Subject: Re: Recrowning
> Date: Thursday, May 29, 1997 7:41 PM
>
>                       RE>>Recrowning
5/29/97
> Richard,
>
> I beg of you not to ever do this; wedging the bridge was a popular
fad
> about forty years ago and is evidently a classic example of getting
another
> go round on the wheel of time. The theory was to cut down to the
soundboard
> vertically under the struts, jack up the board and glue wedges in
the saw
> kerfs. This is intended to increase the curvature of the  of the
> soundboard. I never did it as every instinct rebelled against the
idea, and
> later I encountered three pianos that had had this type or
repair.Each one
> sounded very dead.
>
> The fallacy is that the bridges so repaired were now holding the
soundboard
> up instead of the soundboard supporting the bridges.
>
> Having been around a long time, I have seen several fads come and
then lose
> their allure, only to be rediscovered. I hope that this one will be
cast
> into limbo forever, where it belongs.
>
> Sincerely,
> Ted_Sambell@banffcentre.ab.ca
>
> --------------------------------------
> Date: 5/29/97 12:52 AM
> To: Ted Sambell
> From: pianotech
> In reply, so as to keep the thread on Horace's comments, I seem to
> remember Leonard Jared talking about placing a wedge in the bridge
> ala keystone fashion. This would involve cutting the bridge in such
a
> way to insert this as I don't think he mentioned removing the
bridge.
>  This is so vague in my memory, I am not sure of any other details.

> Perhaps some one else has heard of this.  The soundboard had to
> "jacked up" the incision made (before or after?) in a predetermined
> spot, the wedge inserted, and the sb let back down.  This was only
> from "hearsay" and  was it from him even??
> 	Even if this is a case of me not distingushing dreams from
reality,
> (is that why I perceive some saying, "Ah ha, he has let the cat out
> of the bag?") on THINKing about this, more than one wedge might be
> needed.  But where?  Also I would like to ask, how does the bridge
> run in relation to the crown?
>
> Richard Moody
>
> "I wanted only to try to live in accord with the promptings
> which came from my true self.
> Why was that so very difficult?"
> Hermann Hesse  Demian
>