cracks in rim

[gordon stelter]

Just because they may string it with the outer rim
off, doesn't mean they have to  pull it to pitch,
right ?
     Thump

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

> 
> > Dean, I think your logic is faulty. /"...they make
> them with that way, 
> > with the outer rim assembled at the end. That
> means the inner rim must 
> > be designed to handle all the stress by itself
> with the outer rim 
> > serving primarily a cosmetic function."/
> >  
> > Whereas I will agree with you that the inner rim
> /_should_/ be designed 
> > to handle all the stress, I find it illogical to
> assume that the inner 
> > rim /_must_/ be designed to handle the stress.
> >  
> > Big difference IMHO   ;-)
> >  
> > Terry Farrell
> 
> Personally, I'd prefer to have the plate take the
> stress so 
> neither of the rims had to. I hate it when all that
> rim 
> supported tension finally wins and folds the piano
> up.
> Ron N
> 



       
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