[pianotech] Wood over soundboard ribs

[William Truitt]

I call it the "Poor Man's cutoff bar"  My 1899 Steinway B in the shop has it
on only 3 ribs.  :-(

Will Truitt

-----Original Message-----
From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf
Of Ron Nossaman
Sent: Monday, November 08, 2010 8:24 AM
To: pianotech at ptg.org
Subject: Re: [pianotech] Wood over soundboard ribs

On 11/8/2010 6:00 AM, limhseng at gmail.com wrote:
> Hi List
> This NY Steinway B has a piece of wood over 5 soundboard ribs on the bass
side. What is it for and what does it do?
> Thanks.
> Lim


It's an attempt to compensate for the too long ribs, rather than having
installed the cutoff bar that should have been there.
Ron N