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It's interesting how many creative designs we keep seeing from the past.
Fenton Murray & I are working on a 1901 Bosendorfer with a piano forte type
action. It's His client & the piano lives in a victorian in the Santa Cruz area
which is good setting for it
It's 6 ft 7 . It has the entire belly rail in a float It also has cut
off bars & a fanned rib pattern with yes ... significantly crowned ribs. The
thin floating belly rail Approx 1 1/2 inch thick when laminated with the
board is attached by bolts to the plate in 2 spots & is also one cut off is
connected to the belly (Strip) is very unconventional This was ,IMO ,employed
to allow access for the long keys & design of the Pianoforte action to
slide way in the action cavity.. The belly strip is made of spruce & partially
capped with beech & is approx 3 or more inches wide.
We replaced the spruce cutoffs with maple for stiffer support. This has a
bass cut off & also a shorter one in the back end sort of on the curve. The
ribs oriented starting a peculiar fashion, but hey Who Am to criticize. Pics
to follow
Fun Stuff
Dale
It goes back further than that. Some time back we put a new board in a
pre-1850
Broadwood flat strung grand. The board floated along the side to free up the
area around bass bridge and give it at least some mobility.
Del
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