Killer Octave

[Farrell]

I have not had much success at searching the archives. When you do a search,
does it only search the subject line, or does it search the entire text for
key words?

Terry Farrell

----- Original Message -----
From: "Delwin D Fandrich" <pianobuilders@olynet.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 08, 2001 9:14 PM
Subject: Re: Killer Octave


>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ron Nossaman" <RNossaman@KSCABLE.com>
> To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: September 08, 2001 12:51 PM
> Subject: Re: Killer Octave
>
>
> >
> > Tom,
> > This was something Del said he experimented with briefly some years
back.
> A
> > few automotive valve springs are mounted on supports between beams,
> > positioned underneath the soundboard along the bridge line, boosting the
> > inadequately stiff soundboard up to try to get some tone back. He
reported
> > some improvement, but apparently nearly got lynched for soundboard
heresy
> > before he got too far into the research.
> >
> > Ron N
> ------------------------------------------------------
>
> He's also written about it at some length on pianotech some months back.
No,
> I don't remember the subject line.
>
> Del
>