----- Original Message ----- From: "Phillip L Ford" <fordpiano@lycos.com> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: December 30, 2001 6:13 AM Subject: Re: Piano Rims (rambling post) > > Does this mean that you modify the bracing on > your pianos? Many pianos seem to have no bracing > along the straight side. And many seem to have > all belly rail support concentrated in one spot, > and in a spot that I might think it's not so > important that it be stiff. Yes. We add cross-braces between the longitudinal bellybraces and the long, straight side. By design this cross-brace is most often located at the point the soundboard cutoff bar intersects the rim straight side. We lay the soundboard cutoff bar on top of the added rim cross-brace. We also usually add a bellybrace between the inside of the rim's inside treble curve and the belly rail. Del
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