<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><br>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 only ones I find which die are very late 19th and 20th century pianos with soundboards installed with "tight" crowns, particularly compressed crowns.<div><br></div><div>AA</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><br></div></div></div></body></html>