---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Ron Well I could send you a DVD of my D but then that's not really a representative of the Factory instrument. What's your mailing address though. BTW I've seen/heard & worked on NY D boards as thin as .320 & as thick as >390 ish. But then the same can be said of the other models. I can't tell there is any parameter for any particular board thickness or at any time frame in there history. The NY D I worked on with a thin board did not sustain as well as the ones with a panel in the .360 ish range. My own is .370 & has the fat envelope you refer to. It's a wonderful sound. Dale It was really a bit too ill to tell what it might have sounded like when new. But certainly, with only 8 mm in the high treble, I think it has too little mass to sustain effectively. For my taste, I think the Hamburg Ds are a bit too short-and-shocky in the top as a general rule (but then again, they would probably say that my boards are too sustaining - it is purely a matter of taste). I prefer a bit longer fat-envelope, before the longer lingering gets under way. I'd like to hear a few recordings of well prepared US made Ds. I heard a US D played by Cyrus Chestnut in the 300th year television special which sounded pretty good. Anybody know what typical D panel tapering/thicknesses are for the US made Ds? Ron O. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/92/6b/73/fa/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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