How come is it that old boards are denigrated for
getting stiff ( i.e. "petrification" ) and this is
mentioned as undesirable.
Yet it is added stiffness which is the goal with
epoxying of old boards, to make them
"more responsive".
Me confused.
Thump
P.S. I'm beginning to fear that Ron doesn't actually
love me......
--- Ron Nossaman <rnossaman@cox.net> wrote:
>
> Well, YOU'RE sure missing something if this is all
> you got out
> of all the list discussion on soundboards.
>
> For instance - of all those hundreds of clobbered
> pianos
> you've heard that didn't sound nearly as good as
> your four
> exceptional uprights, how many of them had
> compression crowned
> boards? Of those that did, why didn't they sound as
> good as
> these exceptional uprights? Why don't ALL Knabes,
> Ivers &
> Ponds, and Packards sound this wonderful?
>
> When you can explain that to US rationally, perhaps
> you'll
> have some idea why these four pianos don't sound
> that way. And
> why only four uprights? Shouldn't there be thousands
> upon
> thousands of them that sound that good?
>
> This is rhetorical, incidentally, rather than the
> beginning of
> a discussion.
>
> Ron N
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