Soundboard Springs. Long.

[Delwin D Fandrich]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Page" <jonpage@mediaone.net>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: April 24, 2001 3:52 AM
Subject: Re: Soundboard Springs. Long.


> At 10:25 PM 04/23/2001 -0700, you wrote:
> >About the soundboard spring idea . . .<snip>
> >Good luck to those adventurous enough to go where few have gone before.
> >Regards,
> >Del
>
> This got me thinking again...about an idea I had a few years ago.
> Instead of a spring installed at the KO (Killer Octave) how about an
> auxiliary rib.
>
> This would be supported at the belly rail and at the rim. The only contact
> point on
> the soundboard would be a spacer between this rib and the area under the
> bridge.
> I guess it would not really be a rib but a torsion bar (if that is the
> right term).
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Sounds rather like a spring -- a leaf spring -- to me.

Del