In a message dated 1/26/2010 5:42:27 P.M. Central Standard Time, surfdog at metrocast.net writes: My feeble and foggy brain tells me that I once saw a small Chickering grand once with a very similar set up. About 12 years ago I rebuilt a 6' Julius Bauer that had a separate inner and outer rim, with the added feature that the plate set down in the space between the two rims and was bolted in place around the rim. Dale Erwin wrote in about a similar instrument a year or two ago. Mine didn't lose crown either - it had ribs on the top of the panel as well as the bottom. Decent sounding piano after the rebuild. Will Truitt We put a new board in an 1890 Chickering 6'3" about 25 years ago. The soundboard was glued to a series of bridges along the inner rim, and not at all to the outer rim. The old board actually still had barely measurable crown. Paul -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20100126/963a15a7/attachment.htm>
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