This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/related attachment ------=_NextPart_001_004B_01C2CF55.DF92B9E0 I've been at this rewhatevering business since early in the 1960s. About = the time I figure I must have seen most everything, someone like = Chickering comes along with this: Yes, that gold stuff between the agraffe line and the bridges is plate! = It's all part of a continuous, one-piece casting. And around the = bellyrail the casting extends down probably another 75 mm the full width = of the bellyrail with large (probably #18 or so) 4" (100 mm) wood screws = spaced about every 150 mm or so. Yes, the plate is heavy. Yes, what = would normally be an overbar is actually an underbar. Yes, the pinblock = is fully fitted inside the plate cavity. Yes, the tuning pin holes are = size-on-size with the tuning pins. (It must have been interesting = driving those 4/0 pins into holes intended to flush-fit 2/0 pins!) Now, you would think, with all this massive plate and belly structure = (the three longitudinal bellybraces are fully 100 mm x 150 mm) the idea = would be to provide a solid foundation for the soundboard. But, no, the = soundboard is semi-floating on a liner approximately 15 mm tall by about = 35 or 40 mm wide. It is attached only every 300 or 400 mm. You might be = able to make out the small wood blocks with screws--there are five of = them--along the bass side. That's how the entire soundboard is = mounted--including underneath that massive plate structure. No structural deficiencies here.... Del Delwin D Fandrich Piano Designer & Builder Hoquiam, Washington USA E.mail: pianobuilders@olynet.com Web Site: www.pianobuilders.com ------=_NextPart_001_004B_01C2CF55.DF92B9E0 An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/fd/a4/cf/c6/attachment.htm ------=_NextPart_001_004B_01C2CF55.DF92B9E0-- ---------------------- multipart/related attachment A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/jpeg Size: 80859 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/35/38/e8/f8/attachment.jpe ---------------------- multipart/related attachment--
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