Yes. And since it has been repeatedly stated by some on this list that the ribs alone support crown, with no help whatsoever from the rim or board, I do sincerely hope that they who have made this assertion will try carbon fiber ribs, or some other material with no compression set. Thanks! Thump --- Richard Brekne <Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no> wrote: > > > Brooks Weisman wrote: > > > List, Del & Sarah > > Carbon fiber is being used to make cellos-----> > > www.qstrings.com > > Could this be adapted for soundboards? > > > > Brooks Weisman RPT > > Arcata & Napa, CA > > brooksw@jps.net > > > > I would think so. Fact is I can see little reason > why it has not been tried > seriously yet. On the one hand you have companies > like Steinway, who if first > should make an inovation, would benifit from > something really big ... like a > successfull shift in soundboard materials. On the > other hand, you have companies > like Yamaha and Kawaii who have seemingly made a > point out of comming up with > untraditional ways of making traditional (so to > speak) instruments. Thirdly you > have a host of "B-team" manufacturers left, many of > them making decent enough > pianos and with all kinds of reasons to land a big > fish like this . And on the > fourth hand, you have all these wanabees, freelance, > small shops, etc. etc. etc. > some of them really quite talented actually... often > with more resources > available to them then they are themselves clear > over... nearly always convinced > (for better and/or worse) that they can do things > better then the present > industry trend setters, just itching to make that > bigtime breakthrough and > change the world as it were. > > You'd think, in all that and the rest of the mesh > that makes up our industry... > that somebody out there who actually is making > pianos one way or the other would > have at least tried. > > Cheers > RicB > -- > Richard Brekne > RPT, N.P.T.F. > UiB, Bergen, Norway > mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no > http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html > http://www.hf.uib.no/grieg/personer/cv_RB.html > > > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com
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