<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <html><head><style type="text/css"></style><title>Crescendo Punchings</title></head><body> <div><font face="Arial">><font size="-4" color="#000000">Did the rebuild include a new soundboard or did it retain the original?</font></font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="-4" color="#000000"><br></font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="-4" color="#000000">When it was rebuilt about 1990 a new sounding board was installed.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="-4" color="#000000"><br></font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="-4" color="#000000">>Have  you examined soundboard crown between all accessable ribs?</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="-4" color="#000000">>Examined downbearding?</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="-4" color="#000000"><br></font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="-4" color="#000000">Scant amount of each but I didn't see the point to checking too far</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="-4" color="#000000">since they could not be addressed. At this point I can only treat the</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="-4" color="#000000">symptoms, not the cause. Mass loading may help.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="-4" color="#000000"><br></font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="-4" color="#000000">The tone is still dry, slightly nasally with advanced decay syndrome</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="-4" color="#000000">but now with better attack which accounts for the perception of what it should be.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="-4" color="#000000"><br> >And what might TLRG be?</font></div> <div><font face="Arial"><br></font></div> <div><font face="Arial">TautLine Regulation Guide</font></div> <div><font face="Arial">Pianotek part number TLRG.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial">Don't leave home without it.</font></div> <div><font face="Arial">(check the archives)</font></div> <x-sigsep><pre>-- </pre></x-sigsep> <div><br> Regards,<br> <br> Jon Page</div> </body> </html>