<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>RE: soundboard on my 1890's Knabe upright</title> </head> <body> <div align="left">That actually was the Thump's comment.   <br/><br/>David Ilvedson, RPT<br/>Pacifica, CA 94044<br/><br/> <div style="padding-right: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-bottom: 5px; border-left: #000000 3px solid; padding-top: 5px"> <hr/>Original message<br/>From: "daniel carlton" <hacicspe@gmail.com> </hacicspe@gmail.com><br/>To: "pianotech mailing list" <pianotech@ptg.org> </pianotech@ptg.org><br/>Received: 2/14/2008 10:25:15 PM<br/>Subject: soundboard on my 1890's Knabe upright<br/><br/> <div align="left">hey techs</div> <div> </div> <div>i've got a rebuilt (rebuilt 2 or 3 years ago) 1890's Knabe upright. nice warm, woody sound, and it's already been used in a few recordings. i'd like to have it sound nice for many more years. i do have one concern. i've noticed a crack or two in the soundboard, and it bums me out to have a rebuilt, beautifully sounding piano with a crack in the soundboard. </div> <div>now i did a few shims at nbss on grands we were rebuilding, but never any uprights... and in the following post <a href="https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/2006-January/184497.html">https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/2006-January/184497.html</a>, David Ilvedson says you can't shim from behind. </div> <div>so my question is can <em>anything</em> be done to fix the cracks?</div> <div> </div> <div>as always, any help is greatly appreciated.</div> <div> </div> <div>thanks</div> <div> </div> <div>daniel carlton</div> </div> </div> </body> </html>