Soundboard drydown for installation

[John Delacour]

At 00:10 -0500 23/1/08, Erwinspiano at aol.com wrote:

>    Hi JD
>   Well, I would like to know for sure asÊtoo but whatever it does it 
>doesn't seem to be a detriment either way.
>    The only thing I can imagine is that as I said in my earlier 
>posting thatÊa bridge which is glued to the board with a light 
>curvature reduces the need to forceÊdown the treble & bass ends to 
>the rimÊas much...

One way, I was once told, of creating crown along the grain is to 
plane the edges of the boards with very slight convexity.  Now I have 
never done this and don't intend trying, and I'm not at all sure the 
man who told me of it, an ex-Steinway man who's worked independently 
for over 40 years, had actually tried it himself, but it would 
certainly work.  The joining of the boards would need to be done on a 
dished table.

JD