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Del,<br>
<x-tab> </x-tab>Might you
have a higher resolution photo of this that you could send off list? I'm
having trouble seeing some of the details.<br><br>
Greg Newell<br><br>
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At 12:38 PM 2/8/2003, you wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite><font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#000080">I've
been at this rewhatevering business since early in the 1960s. About the
time I figure I must have seen most everything, someone like Chickering
comes along with this:</font><br>
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Snip<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite><font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#000080">Yes,
that gold stuff between the agraffe line and the bridges is plate! It's
all part of a continuous, one-piece casting. And around the bellyrail the
casting extends down probably another 75 mm the full width of the
bellyrail with large (probably #18 or so) 4" (100 mm) wood screws
spaced about every 150 mm or so. Yes, the plate is heavy. Yes, what would
normally be an overbar is actually an underbar. Yes, the pinblock is
fully fitted inside the plate cavity. Yes, the tuning pin holes are
size-on-size with the tuning pins. (It must have been interesting driving
those 4/0 pins into holes intended to flush-fit 2/0 pins!)</font><br>
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<font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#000080">Now, you would think, with all
this massive plate and belly structure (the three longitudinal
bellybraces are fully 100 mm x 150 mm) the idea would be to provide a
solid foundation for the soundboard. But, no, the soundboard is
semi-floating on a liner approximately 15 mm tall by about 35 or 40 mm
wide. It is attached only every 300 or 400 mm. You might be able to make
out the small wood blocks with screws--there are five of them--along the
bass side. That's how the entire soundboard is mounted--including
underneath that massive plate structure.</font><br>
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<font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#000080">No structural deficiencies
here....</font><br>
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<font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#000080">Del</font><br>
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<font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#000080">Delwin D Fandrich<br>
Piano Designer & Builder<br>
Hoquiam, Washington USA<br>
E.mail:
<a href="mailto:pianobuilders@olynet.com">pianobuilders@olynet.com</a><br>
Web Site:
<a href="http://www.pianobuilders.com">www.pianobuilders.com</a></font><br>
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Greg Newell<br>
<a href="mailto:gnewell@ameritech.net" eudora="autourl">mailto:gnewell@ameritech.net</a></body>
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