> Makes sense. So when you get an old piano that has bridge cap AND > soundboard compression damage, you get a piano that is stable > tuning-wise, but is unlikely to sound particularly good. > > Thanks, > > Dave That's been my experience, and if a piano has significant climate related soundboard damage, it will pretty much inevitably have similar bridge cap damage. If my time machine wasn't on the fritz and needing parts that haven't been invented yet, I'd love to fire it up and see what an epoxy laminated veneer cap will look like in fifty or a hundred years. It's my intent, expectation, and hope that they will fare much better than the solid wood caps we fight so much today. Ron N
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