>I would likely point out that if the crack is new, it would show fairly clean >wood inside the crack. If the crack is older, it would either be dirty, or >darker then a freshly exposed surface. > >Gordon Large, RPT Ok, so how do you 1: see down into a crack well enough to ascertain whether or not the sides are clean, 2: determine whether what you're seeing is indeed darker than a freshly exposed surface unless you have a freshly broken piece of the same material for comparison (there's considerable color variation among spruce planking used in soundboards), especially down in a narrow crack, 3: explain how jostling the piano around could crack the board in the first place so you can realistically claim that to be the cause of what you think may be a fresh crack. #3 is the one I'm questioning, since this seems to be taken automatically on faith. Ron N
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