Re: [pianotech] termsJohn Delacour wrote: >A belly bar is what the Americans call a rib ... I've been working in the American piano industry for many years, and I do not recall hearing a rib called a belly bar. I have always known it as a rib. I have heard the entire assembly that spans the bass and treble arms as a belly rail. If there is a need to distinguish between its three basic components, top, middle, and bottom belly rails work for me. Perhaps bar would be a better term than rail for these parts. I'm just saying that rail is more commonly used in American piano manufacturing. Perhaps, I should also refer to American piano manufacturing in the past tense. >Schimmel says the Americans call the Damm the liner. In my experience in American piano manufacturing, liner is a term for the wood strips in an upright piano to which the soundboard is glued, and not an appropriate term for any component of a grand piano. George F. (Frank) Emerson -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20110110/f4605d2d/attachment.htm>
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