Crack fillers - old soundboards

[Richard Brekne]

This sounds like good advice and thinking to me Terry. I have often suspected
that inspite of the fact that such repairs cannot, according to those who are
supposed to know these things...grin, improve the sound of the pannel, it seems
to me that filling cracks with epoxy paying particular attention to soaking it
in around the areas where ribs are attached to the back has got to help stave
off further weakening of the panel to some degree. Ergo its not entirely
cosmetic... but perhaps can be viewed as a kind of...er... preventative medisin
as well.

Cant say I have ever head a buzz that I could ascertain came from a crack in a
panel... plenty from ribs pulling away, but not from a crack when all glue
joints to the panel are in order.

Farrell wrote:

> Some thoughts on whether filling/shimming a soundboard crack is entirely
> cosmetic. Sometimes cracks cause buzzing. Filling them or proper shimming
> will stop/prevent a buzz from a cracked soundboard (at least from that
> crack). Also, I almost always find that the soundboard has pulled away from
> the rib at and adjacent to the crack. Obviously, the separated rib can be
> fixed without attention to the soundboard crack, but it's pretty easy to
> make it one procedure. I should think having the soundboard uninterrupted in
> this area would help to maintain the integrity of the soundboard-to-rib
> repair.
>
> Terry Farrell
> Piano Tuning & Service
> Tampa, Florida
> mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <Yardarm103669107@AOL.COM>
> To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: Monday, April 30, 2001 12:25 PM
> Subject: Re: Crack fillers - old soundboards
>
> > In a message dated 4/28/2001 4:06:30 PM Central Daylight Time,
> > rbrekne@broadpark.no writes:
> >
> > << Filling cracks is largely
> >  a cosmetic effort anyways. >>
> >
> > How about, entirely?
> > PR-J
> >

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Richard Brekne
RPT, N.P.T.F.
Bergen, Norway
mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no