Hey kiddoes, hasn't anyone been to a convention recently??????? Carbon fiber baby!!!! http://steingraeberpianos.com/news/phoenix.html Sounds pretty sweet to my ears...... :-) Terry Farrell On Sep 25, 2010, at 10:37 PM, tnrwim at aol.com wrote: > There was a guy in Holland who developed an acrylic soundboard. From > what I was told, he tried to sell his idea to several different > manufactures, but the manufacturer wanted full control of the > invention. and the guy didn't want to loose his patent. I don't know > if he still around. He made a CD, which I had at one time. The piano > sounded a little hollow. > > I also has a piano that had a steel soundboard. It belonged to a > customer in St. Louis, who gave me the patent information. That > piano, and another one, were made by some one in Sweden. A number of > years ago I mentioned this on Pianotech, and a piano tuner from > Sweden said he tuned the other one. The interesting thing about this > piano was that it sounded just like one of those steel drum bands > from the Caribbean. > > I took pictures of the piano while it was still in my shop, but > after the piano was delivered, someone stole the camera. I couldn't > go back to the customer because they were mad at me for charging as > much as I did to repair the piano. (But that's another story). > Wim > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Qshooterq <Qshooterq at aol.com> > To: pianotech <pianotech at ptg.org> > Sent: Sat, Sep 25, 2010 8:46 am > Subject: [pianotech] plastic boards - was soundboard graffiti > > In about 1970, Rippen pianos was quite bold with their pianos. In > addition to reverse threaded tuning pins and reverse crowns, they > also made some with plastic soundboards. Maybe someone else > remembers better than me. --Tom Gorley > > In a message dated 9/24/10 9:24:33 PM, dahechler at att.net writes: > >> Weirder yet, cover to soundboard with a thin layer of plastic. >> >> That should keep in the humidity and help keep the soundboard from >> cracking? >> >> Even more weirder, make the soundboard out of plexiglass - then it >> will >> never break and yet still be flexible. >> >> Which that may not sound so weird after all. >> >> In the old Edison phonographs, what was the vibrating diaphragm >> made of ? >> >> Duaine > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100929/3163c9c3/attachment.htm>
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