Scaling: was Soundboard Springs

[David Love]

Have been following this thread and wondered would rescaling the upper part 
of the piano with a higher tension scale accomplish the same thing as 
reinforcing the board with springs from underneath.

David Love


>From: "Delwin D Fandrich" <pianobuilders@olynet.com>
>Reply-To: pianotech@ptg.org
>To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
>Subject: Re: Soundboard Springs. Long.
>Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 07:32:52 -0700
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Jon Page" <jonpage@mediaone.net>
>To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
>Sent: April 24, 2001 3:52 AM
>Subject: Re: Soundboard Springs. Long.
>
>
> > At 10:25 PM 04/23/2001 -0700, you wrote:
> > >About the soundboard spring idea . . .<snip>
> > >Good luck to those adventurous enough to go where few have gone before.
> > >Regards,
> > >Del
> >
> > This got me thinking again...about an idea I had a few years ago.
> > Instead of a spring installed at the KO (Killer Octave) how about an
> > auxiliary rib.
> >
> > This would be supported at the belly rail and at the rim. The only 
>contact
> > point on
> > the soundboard would be a spacer between this rib and the area under the
> > bridge.
> > I guess it would not really be a rib but a torsion bar (if that is the
> > right term).
>------------------------------
>
>Sounds rather like a spring -- a leaf spring -- to me.
>
>Del
>

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