R,C&S question

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 Ron
  Coming up for air mate?
  Nice to hear from you.  I guess I missed that  part.  I didn't realize the 
Rochester piano had a laminated board. Oh well  it still sounded truly 
unbelievable.  SO I guess it doesn't effect my  opinion of what I heard....grin.  
What Kind of crown did this board have  before it was glued in? Is the crown a 
variable radius  design?
cheers
  Dale



Several of the new pianos we've built had a laminated panel, including  the 
piano we exhibited in Rochester in 2006. Here's an image of the soundboard  for 
no. 6, just before it was fitted.


http://members.optuszoo.com.au/ronovers/NO6.14.jpg


These boards, with the piano strung and at pitch, remain crowned enough  for 
a string line across the underside of the mid-panel to nearly clear the  
height of the soundboard buttons. Crown remains over the entire area of the  
soundboard, without any of the typical overloading at the bridge 'lines' and  the 
perimeter of the soundboard.


There's more evolution left in the piano yet. Let's not let the  stagnation 
of the past century put us off. Let's make the new piano century  one for 
history in the making.


Ron O.
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