[pianotech] 3 sound boards???

[JWyatt1492 at aol.com]

Hello to All.
 
   I have read about a double board in a " Heppe"
but not a triple.  It stated  the  piano was built by 
another factory for  Heppe  and the second board
was  attached,  installed or whatever after delivery 
to Heppe. My opinion then and now is that it was
a  promotional gimmick.
   
   I would to know more about the triple boards.
 
    Jack Wyatt  
    PTGF.Museum 
    Curator  
 
 
 
 
In a message dated 9/8/2012 3:45:45 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
rnossaman at cox.net writes:

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

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