So much of this discussion has been about speculation of how a sounding board "will probably react" in different configurations. We all have a conception of what happens at different points in construction. This takes me back to my first years in this business where I thought that you could just tighten the tension resonator on an M & H and get more crown. The concept was intuitive for me at that point. As I learned more, I realized that you couldn't tighten the turnbuckles enough to compress the 4" X 6" beams so that wouldn't work. Then I learned that the rim wasn't holding the crown anyhow. My point is we get these concepts that seem to our intuition to be workable though we have not actually done them. This discussion has pitted those with firmly held conceptual ideas of what a CC or RC&S board will do against a very few who have actually built both kinds. I have never (and at this point in my life won't ever) built a sounding board. I have, however, learned enough to pay somewhat more attention to those who have actually built them, over those who have some intuitive concept of what probably happens. dave David M. Porritt dporritt@smu.edu
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