Hi, List (Del and Ron there?): A few months ago I purchased this very pretty 1880's 6'4" Weber to rebuild. I have just estimated a client's identical piano. Two Webers. Great cabinets, but famous Weber hollow-log sound (yuk). Both have inadequate to zero positive bearing, flat boards, and I am considering board replacement in both (client may pay for theirs) -- here's a chance to try to get semi-efficient. These boards have conventional grain orientation (abt. 45 degrees to side), but the ribs run roughly parallel to the side - front to back! That makes for some long ribs! Should I duplicate this, go to a conventional approach (ribs 90 degrees to grain, 45 degrees to side), or? Of course, the tenor plain wire trichords are VERY tubby, and I intend to rescale. Ron, I am about to plug the numbers in "RESCALE", the software scaling program you sent me, but am interested in if anyone has experience rescaling this particular piano (apparently Weber made quite a few). Bill Shull University of Redlands, La Sierra University
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