Hi all, While we are *redesigning* how about an improvement in the pin block area. I, alas, have *never* seen a screw stringer, but I do read the posts of how *stable * the pitch is! I wish someone would actually take some decent measurements in a high variances of humidity area on a monthly or weekly basis with one of theses *beasts*! At 10:58 AM 2/15/98 -0700, you wrote: >Del: >About 7 or 8 years ago I played a wonderful guitar that had a carbon graphite top. The tone was powerful and warm. Really a delight to listen to and to play. I often thought since then that it would probably be quite possible to build soundboard including bridges and ribs out of carbon graphite/boron graphite etc.. ( some new composite material) Everything could be built-up or cast as necessary or as designed, I'm sure there a re fewer construction restrictions with the new materials than with spruce. And it would be absolutely water/humidity resistant. ( No seasonal tuning changes due to humidity changes) >If it could be made to sound as good as that guitar sounded, who knows? > C. Mike Swendsen RPT ><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> ><HTML> ><HEAD> > ><META content=text/html;charset=iso-8859-1 http-equiv=Content-Type> ><META content='"MSHTML 4.72.2106.6"' name=GENERATOR> ></HEAD> ><BODY bgColor=#ffffff> ><DIV><FONT size=2>Del:</FONT></DIV> ><DIV><FONT size=2>About 7 or 8 years ago I played a wonderful guitar that had a >carbon graphite top. The tone was powerful and warm. Really a >delight to listen to and to play. I often thought since then that it >would probably be quite possible to build soundboard including bridges and ribs >out of carbon graphite/boron graphite etc.. ( some new composite >material) Everything could be built-up or cast as necessary or as >designed, I'm sure there a re fewer construction restrictions with the new >materials than with spruce. And it would be absolutely water/humidity >resistant. ( No seasonal tuning changes due to humidity changes)</FONT></DIV> ><DIV><FONT size=2>If it could be made to sound as good as that guitar sounded, >who knows?</FONT></DIV> ><BLOCKQUOTE >style="BORDER-LEFT: #000000 solid 2px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px"> > <DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>C. Mike Swendsen >RPT</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML> > Regards, Don Rose, B.Mus., A.M.U.S., A.MUS., R.M.T., R.P.T. "Tuner for the Centre of the Arts" drose@dlcwest.com 3004 Grant Rd. REGINA, SK S4S 5G7 306-352-3620 or 1-888-29t-uner
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