my own Soundboard

[Greg Newell]

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Dale and Terry,
    I whole heartedly agree!!!!

Dale,
    Can you describe your method for laying out and calculating the
crown?

Greg

Erwinspiano@AOL.COM wrote:

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>> Subj:Re: my own Soundboard
>> Date:1/18/2002 4:48:07 PM Pacific Standard Time
>> From:mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com
>> Reply-to:pianotech@ptg.org
>> To:pianotech@ptg.org
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>>    Terry
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> I can totally relate. I LOVE the smell of sugar pine/spruce just cut
> up oh man it's good enough to eat. The happiest days in the shop is
> when I'm milling up a bunch of ribs and calculating the crown etc. And
> don't forget the smell of maple WOW. Your on a good path.
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>      Best--Dale Erwin
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>> I thought about this a while more Dale - actually, thinking about
>> whether I should or not - and I think one of the big reasons is that
>> I absolutely LOVE working with wood. My first degree was in Forestry
>> - that's how much I love wood. If I thought about doing this five or
>> ten years from now when I am clearing $60,000 to $100,000 a year
>> rebuilding pianos (hey, everyone needs to have goals!), I could
>> never try it because it would cost me TENS of thousands of dollars
>> (in lost wages). Dabbling with this now is much easier to swallow
>> financially because - well, let's just say I'm well below the
>> aforementioned income range. And I am just not that busy now. I am
>> busy full time, but I don't have much of a waiting line to get into
>> my shop, so I can wiggle this kind of stuff in.
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>> And it adds significantly to the romance of piano rebuilding. That
>> is important to me.
>>
>> Terry Farrell
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Greg Newell
mailto:gnewell@ameritech.net


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