Chines and multi-piece rims

A440A@AOL.COM A440A@AOL.COM
Sun, 3 Mar 2002 09:42:13 EST


Terry writes: 
>Regarding Ed's questions about the massiveness and/or stiffness of the
>rim, with solid timber sections of rim, is it not the case that all we
>would need to do is increase size of these timbers and/or add framing until
>we have whatever mass/stiffness we feel we need? 

     I didn't mean to imply to more mass was better,  I think I tend towards 
maximum intergration of all the pieces.    Let's keep in mind there are some 
really nice sounding pianos out there with relatively light framing.  Several 
of the smaller Chickerings come to mind.  
Regards, 
Ed Foote


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