Shorten the ribs....or make them stauncher?

[gordon stelter]

Which brings up my next question: To increase
stiffness, why not "beef up" the ribs, instead of
shortening them with cutoffs and such ?  That way you
would preserve soundboard area, and still avoid
"bridge collapse".  This Packard I'm working on has NO
cutoffs, but VERY "beefy" ribs----- and still sounds
GREAT after 80 years, with loads of actual water
damage to the board, and about a dozen cracks.
     Thump

 
--- Ron Nossaman <rnossaman@cox.net> wrote:

> 
> >
> >When the pulse from the string hits the bridge and
> >therefore the soundboard, it travels in the board
> >until it gets to a place on the board that no
> longer.................
> 
> -------------------------------------
> 
> It is intended to reduce soundboard area behind the
> treble bridge and 
> shorten the ribs. With both a fish and a bass
> cutoff, the ribs through the 
> killer octave are shortened too, and a more uniform
> progression of rib 
> length (and stiffness control) is obtained from
> tenor to treble.
> 
> Ron N
> 
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