| -----Original Message----- | From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org | [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On Behalf Of Ron Nossaman | Sent: February 16, 2006 8:29 AM | To: Pianotech List | Subject: Re: laminated ribs | | | | | > What about using the same approach with a solid rib. | | No reason not to. The feathering isn't an artifact of | lamination. It'll work the same in a solid rib. The reasons | for laminating include ease of crown machining, accuracy, and | both higher and more uniform statistical average MOE from | batch to batch. | I started doing rib feathering in this manner (at least commercially) with the redesign of the Baldwin Hamilton somewhere around 1986. The ribs were solid, machine-crowned and feathered. They were not inset to the soundboard liner. (In general, I prefer that they not be inset.) Del
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