----- Original Message ----- From: "Sarah Fox" <sarah@gendernet.org> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: August 13, 2003 8:11 AM Subject: Re: Soundboard crown > > If it were *your* personal piano and a soundboard you were planning to keep > for a while, would you riddle it with experimental screw holes????? Before > I do anything like that, I want to see some evidence, a priori, that it's > going to improve the sound! ;-) > > I might try c-clamping something to the side of a rib, underneath the > bridge. Yes. I would have I have. You simply figure out where the bridge is and put a hole there going up through the soundboard into the bridge. Attach the weight with a screw. If you don't like it, when you're finished put in a nice wood button. Looks original. (And, for many companies, they were original.) Del
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