key levelling -- crown?

[Ron Nossaman]

>I'm too lazy to do the math, but 1/16 inch in four feet might be a radius of
>what?  a couple of hundred feet?

117 meters, or thereabouts. The "official" crown, I think, is 1/32", which
would be around a 235 meter radius.


>Now, having an arc? (part of circle) in a keybed will give more SOUND?  I
>sure wouldn't have thought so.

Hey, I said it was MAGIC. Do you want to be a team player here or not?


> Maybe we don't need crown in the soundboard
>after all, just put lots of crown in the key bed.  If Steinway does it, it
>can't be all bad, now, can it?

I'm told this works best with very old wood, but it's hard to get details.


>Tongue firmly implanted in cheek.
>
>Carl Meyer  Assoc. PTG

It's about time someone got off their buttress and did something useful...
like planting.

Ron N