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<DIV>I've always understood that the ribs were thrown into the hot box
for the sake of the glue joint not the emc. Given the grain orientation,
doesn't seem like it would make much of a difference to the compression one way
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<DIV>Jude Reveley, RPT<BR>Absolute Piano Restoration, LLC<BR>Lowell,
Massachusetts<BR>(978) 323-4545</DIV></BODY></HTML>