At 12:08 PM 4/11/2003 -0500, you wrote: >>There ya go, Ed. Math or not, the effects of the resonator are hard to >>ignore. The ease and relative inexpensiveness of installing one of >>PianoTeks' new turnbuckle resonators will address your concerns quite >>well. In other words, just do it. Then, you can actually listen, in real >>time, as you brace the bellyrail in the killer area (and just above). A >>couple of quick turns on the turnbuckle and... well..... just do it. Been >>there, done that, and will suggest it to ANYone with a hundred and fifty >>bucks and a half hour to kill. Well worth it. >> >>Regards, >>Guy Nichols, RPT > > >I don't know anyone who's actually tried it who doesn't agree that belly >rails can benefit from additional bracing. That's an impedance and tone >consideration having not a thing to do with rim spread causing crown to fall. > >Ron N Yeah, Ron. If anything, the turnbuckle arrangement spreads the rim further outward. At least, that's what I did with it. Just hand-tight, though. Magic. The whole dern thing, y'know. The "system"..... it's a...... mystery! Guy
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