Soundboard Size Perspective

[Farrell]

You bet - bring it on!

Terry Farrell
  
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Brekne" <Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 7:02 AM
Subject: Re: Soundboard Size Perspective


> Speaking of cutoff bars and such.....
> 
> I ran into a Bluthner Upright overdamper in quite immaculate condition
> inside... I hope to be able to purchase this instrument.... I am sure you'd
> like a gander at this soundboard / bridge arrangment if you havn't already run
> into it. I'll see if I can go back and get a few shots if the owner doenst want
> to sell.
> 
> RicB
> 
> Ron Nossaman wrote:
> 
> > >Yes. What about them? What I really was getting at is that many pianos
> > >have no cut off bars or any other structure to limit the size of the
> > >soundboard. Such as the upright having all that floppy space below the
> > >high treble end of the bridge, where the grand is cut out by the curved
> > >case. In this particular case, the upright has an original cut-off bar and
> > >the grand has no cut-off bar.
> > >
> > >Terry Farrell
> >
> > It's great, isn't it? Two of the most touted sales features - large
> > soundboard area and longest possible A-0 speaking length - are both
> > actually counterproductive to performance.
> >
> > Ron N
> >
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> Richard Brekne
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> UiB, Bergen, Norway
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