<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>RE: More CC vs RC questions was RE: Killer Octave & = Pitch</TITLE> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <STYLE type=text/css>BLOCKQUOTE { PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px } DL { PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px } UL { PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px } OL { PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px } LI { PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px } </STYLE> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1400" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi Clark. I'm not sure if you are = actually asking for all the technical details that go into belly design formulation = (can't help much with that), but I do know of one very simple method to come up = with an excellent full rib-crowned soundboard design for any piano - and it = is the way I do it: Pay Del Fandrich to redesign your piano! He offers this = service to the rebuilding industry.</FONT><BR></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Terry Farrell</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello, Mr. Overs!  Excuse my = ignorance and curiosity, but how do you figure how big this "fish" should be, and = how do you come up with what size the soundboard should be?  (ie: where to = place the cutoff bars?)  Why should the manufacturers, for many decades = advertise that the bigger the soundboard area, the bigger the sound, and then we = put in cutoff bars to decrease that "essential " size?  There are others = out there who would like to "tool up" to do soundboards, as well, and do = them well.  How do you figure out how to design soundboards with the = knowledge that seems to be expanding all the time?  </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Clark A. Sprague, RPT</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>