Rib Crowned Hamburgs ?

[Ron Nossaman]

>    Ron
>   8 mm /.320ish is on the thin side for a 9ft grand of any make . A 
> board this thin doesn't really need much thinning. In fact it's probably 
> not thick enough in the treble. I'm unaware of the German factory's 
> rhetoric on panel thinning. I'm guessing it sounded a bit thin? grin
>   Regards
>   Dale
> 
>     Very often the factory line doesn't match the actual product. How
>     often have we heard about the tapering of sound board panels from
>     S&S. They may have done it at some time but . . . The original board
>     which I pulled from a 1962 Hamburg D last year had a 8 mm thick panel
>     everywhere. I still have the original panel at the workshop.
> 
>     Ron O.


Ok guys, why would the treble of a 9' piano be any different from 
the treble of a 6' piano?

Ron N