Soundboard stiffening-thanks Ron-N ( Here's that response I promised. )

[gordon stelter]

I am unaware of any "referenced discussion". Please
direct me to it again, that I may peruse.
     Thank You
     Thump

--- Ron Nossaman <RNossaman@cox.net> wrote:
> 
> >Ron,
> >     Your "response" as it were, avoided answering
> the
> >basic question that I posed: that a board
> constrained
> >by the rim glue joint will have the forces you
> >observed re-directed outwardly.
> 
> Gordon,
> My answer is no, for the reasons described in the
> discussion I referenced. 
> Reading the discussion that has already appeared on
> list should explain it. 
> This is an easy thing to test empirically with a
> simple model that is a 
> more realistic representation of a piano soundboard
> assembly than the Mason 
> & Hamlin and Yamaha sales demo. Try it and see for
> yourself. If you feel or 
> believe that gluing the soundboard to the rim will
> somehow reverse the 
> forces involved, you are quite welcome to your
> belief. If you are convinced 
> that I am mistaken or untruthful in what I have
> reported, you are also 
> quite welcome to that belief, and won't be the first
> to hold it. Should you 
> care to actually investigate the question first hand
> by building the model 
> and running the test, you can reconcile the
> difference between your belief 
> and what you see in front of you in any manner you
> see fit. You have my 
> blessing.
> 
> Ron N
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