[pianotech] 3 sound boards???

[Ron Nossaman]

On 9/8/2012 3:18 PM, David Weiss wrote:

> I'm not sure what the patent number is, but I saw the piano today.

You would look up the patent number on Google Patents and see if it 
looked like that, or look for patent numbers on the plate and look them 
up. The number I gave you is indeed to a 1902 patent for an upright with 
three soundboards.


>It
> certainly looked like a regular soundboard to me, underneath 80 years of
> dirt, grime, stink bugs, and neglect.  A totally unremarkable piano. 4'10"
> in length, completely beat up.  I'm still not sure what their ad meant by
> "three sounding boards"

So it's a grand. That's new and pertinent information. Since people will 
call everything under the sun a soundboard, did it happen to have three 
bridges?

Ron N