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These are exactly the pianos I/we are refferring too. AKA, C.C. board or compression crowned boards<br>
Would enjoy hearing what you are. Where/who are you.<br>
The older designs you are working with I suspect depend solely on mass & stiffness for there tone production. Anybody else?<br>
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I regularly work with pianos that are well over 100 to 200 years old with their original soundboards, and the boards are just are still "alive". I'm just starting a late 19th century 8'6" Viennese piano that is in original condition and will still knock your socks off. The <STRONG>only ones I find which die are very late 19th and 20th century pianos with soundboards installed with "tight" crowns, particularly <U>compressed crowns</U></STRONG><U>. </U>
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