Soundboard crown & carbon fiber & cellos

[gordon stelter]

Yes. And since it has been repeatedly stated by some
on this list that the ribs alone support crown, with
no help whatsoever from the rim or board, I do
sincerely hope that they who have made this assertion
will try carbon fiber ribs, or some other material
with no compression set.
     Thanks!
     Thump

--- Richard Brekne <Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no>
wrote:
> 
> 
> Brooks Weisman wrote:
> 
> > List, Del & Sarah
> > Carbon fiber is being used to make cellos----->
> > www.qstrings.com
> > Could this be adapted for soundboards?
> >
> > Brooks Weisman RPT
> > Arcata & Napa, CA
> > brooksw@jps.net
> >
> 
> I would think so. Fact is I can see little reason
> why it has not been tried
> seriously yet. On the one hand you have companies
> like Steinway, who if first
> should make an inovation, would benifit from
> something really big ... like a
> successfull shift in soundboard materials. On the
> other hand, you have companies
> like Yamaha and Kawaii who have seemingly made a
> point out of comming up with
> untraditional ways of making traditional (so to
> speak) instruments. Thirdly you
> have a host of "B-team" manufacturers left,  many of
> them making decent enough
> pianos and with all kinds of reasons to land a big
> fish like this . And on the
> fourth hand, you have all these wanabees, freelance,
> small shops, etc. etc. etc.
> some of them really quite talented actually... often
> with more resources
> available to them then they are themselves clear
> over... nearly always convinced
> (for better and/or worse) that they can do things
> better then the present
> industry trend setters, just itching to make that
> bigtime breakthrough and
> change the world as it were.
> 
> You'd think, in all that and the rest of the mesh
> that makes up our industry...
> that somebody out there who actually is making
> pianos one way or the other would
> have at least tried.
> 
> Cheers
> RicB
> --
> Richard Brekne
> RPT, N.P.T.F.
> UiB, Bergen, Norway
> mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no
> http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html
> http://www.hf.uib.no/grieg/personer/cv_RB.html
> 
> 
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