[pianotech] 3 sound boards???

[David Lawson]

I don't know about 3 soundboards, but I tuned a Challen grand the other day 
which had three bridges. Two in the bass on different angles, and the 
treble.  This was a sorry excuse for a grand due its small length, (about 
feet 10inches) with no bass at all. Why they bothered to produce such an 
instrument defies logic. There were three tuning planks, and three bridges, 
and the action had four different sections to match up with the stringing. 
The entire treble was false, which is no pleasure to tune. All in all a most 
disappointing result. A truly useless design IMO
David Lawson OZ

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Weiss" <davidweiss at embarqmail.com>
To: <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2012 11:44 AM
Subject: Re: [pianotech] 3 sound boards???


> There were only two bridges.  I saw nothing out of the ordinary on the 
> piano
> and would have to agree with Jack that it was some type of promotional
> gimmick.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On 
> Behalf
> Of Ron Nossaman
> Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2012 4:46 PM
> To: pianotech at ptg.org
> Subject: Re: [pianotech] 3 sound boards???
>
> On 9/8/2012 3:18 PM, David Weiss wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure what the patent number is, but I saw the piano today.
>
> You would look up the patent number on Google Patents and see if it looked
> like that, or look for patent numbers on the plate and look them up. The
> number I gave you is indeed to a 1902 patent for an upright with three
> soundboards.
>
>
>>It
>> certainly looked like a regular soundboard to me, underneath 80 years
>>of  dirt, grime, stink bugs, and neglect.  A totally unremarkable piano.
> 4'10"
>> in length, completely beat up.  I'm still not sure what their ad meant
>>by  "three sounding boards"
>
> So it's a grand. That's new and pertinent information. Since people will
> call everything under the sun a soundboard, did it happen to have three
> bridges?
>
> Ron N
>
>
>