>Fellow rebuilders, > >For about the fourth time in many years, I've started rebuilding a piano >with perfectly intact soundboard (Steinway Model M, 1916). It's amazing, >not a single hairline crack, not one loose rib. In years past if I found >such a board, I would go ahead and dry it down just out of pure anal >retentativeness (new word?), just 'in case ...' as it were. But now >looking at this well kept specimen, I question if I should do nothing >more than scrape off the old top varnish, refinish it, and call it quits. > >Anybody have any thoughts on the subject? > >Regards, > >Charles Faulk If lack of cracks and loose ribs were the sole determinant of soundboard viability, fine, but they're not. What was the condition of crown and bearing when it came in the shop? Ron N
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