----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon Page" <jonpage@mediaone.net> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: April 24, 2001 3:52 AM Subject: Re: Soundboard Springs. Long. > At 10:25 PM 04/23/2001 -0700, you wrote: > >About the soundboard spring idea . . .<snip> > >Good luck to those adventurous enough to go where few have gone before. > >Regards, > >Del > > This got me thinking again...about an idea I had a few years ago. > Instead of a spring installed at the KO (Killer Octave) how about an > auxiliary rib. > > This would be supported at the belly rail and at the rim. The only contact > point on > the soundboard would be a spacer between this rib and the area under the > bridge. > I guess it would not really be a rib but a torsion bar (if that is the > right term). ------------------------------ Sounds rather like a spring -- a leaf spring -- to me. Del
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