Soundboard drydown for installation

[Farrell]

I should think the moisture content of the panel at rib glueup should be 
much more influential on the propensity of panel cracking rather than the 
moisture content of the soundboard at installation time.

Terry Farrell

----- Original Message -----
>The methods used by certain makers result all too often in compression 
>marks that can appear even before delivery to the showrooms.  On the other 
>hand it seems certain that many makers, Bechstein being one of them at 
>least for a long time) fitted the soundboard with too high a moisture 
>content so that sooner or later in places with dry central heating great 
>cracks opened up.  And certain makers (I'm talking here of pre-1910) hit 
>upon just the right moisure content for installation so that cracks in 
>their soundboards are very rare and always due to excessive baking over a 
>long period.
SNIP
> JD