Warped Harpsicord Soundboard Fix

[Avery Todd]

Hi Dave,

Wow, where did this come from? All I do is tune a couple here at the
university in a relatively well-controlled humidity environment! I
know, I'm lucky. :-) And very rarely have to tune ET on it!

Unfortunately, one of those is a Martin which has a tuning
pin leaning so far forward (lowest F) that I'm worried about
it coming out and hitting someone. But the maker will never
respond to calls, etc., to come here and fix it and do some
other needed work! I don't even know what material the
pinblock is to think about doing a plug thing!

Even the harpsichord guy in San Antonio has, so far, not
responded to calls to do a good bit of work. I guess they
both have too much to do! Sorry, I'm just not a harpsichord
person but I'd think that the maker would be interested in
preserving his reputation! Sorry I got on a tangent!

Avery

>I'd be interested from Avery on this subject, as he has much broader
>experience with different harpsichords than I.
>
>Dave Smith
>Bondi's Rookie
>Pine Island FL
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Farrell" <mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com>
>To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
>Sent: Monday, September 02, 2002 9:44 AM
>Subject: Warped Harpsicord Soundboard Fix
>
>
> > I ran across this doing a search for Damp-Chaser.
> >
> > Creative fixes for warped harpsicord soundboards can be found at:
> >
>http://www.hubharp.com/technical%20articles/soundboard_warped_soundboards.ht
>m
> >
> > Two questions. What on earth is this guy talking about? And are harpsicord
>soundboards THAT much different than piano soundboards (isn't a harpsicord
>board made with some crown)?
> >
> > Terry Farrell
> >