laminated ribs

[David Ilvedson]

Terry,

It is interesting to try to figure out how things happen.   How long has Steinway been making CC soundboards?   Since they began, right?   They must have realized the soundboard had to be under tension and that was the most logical way at the time?   Now just suppose...if Steinway was to abandon CC soundboards.   Would there be an appreciable difference in the sound of their pianos?   Does the Steinway rebuilding shop put CC soundboards in their rebuilds...?

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, California



----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: Farrell <mfarrel2 at tampabay.rr.com>
To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org>
Received: 3/31/2006 7:53:07 AM
Subject: Re: laminated ribs


>David - Good example here of how things get misinterpreted in an email, 
>compared to face-to-face. Yes, I saw the ;-). I was really just using your 
>comment as a jumping off point, rather than trying to be contentious. I've 
>long wondered about the questions I asked. I'm not trying to be a 
>smarty-pants asking them. I wonder if anyone has accurate or meaningful 
>answers to them.

>Terry Farrell

>----- Original Message -----
>> Please note.........;-]
>>
>> David Ilvedson, RPT
>> Pacifica, California
>>
>> ----- Original message ----------------------------------------
>>
>>>Is that so? Are CC soundboards designed? Are they simply "built the way 
>>>the
>>>original masters built them"? Maybe it's just an art. Maybe, like Spock, 
>>>the
>>>master does a Sitka/Eastern-White Mind Meld, and then just knows what the
>>>wood wants.
>>
>>>But seriously, are they designed? Or is it just a combination of empirical
>>>results and "that's the way they've always done it"?
>>
>>>Terry Farrell
>>
>>>----- Original Message ----- 
>>>> That takes years and years of experience...;-]
>>>>
>>>> David Ilvedson, RPT
>>>> Pacifica, California
>>>>
>>>>> I have no clue whatsoever how to design a CC board, so that one's not
>>>>>on the list.
>>>>
>>>>>Ron N