Soundboard Installation - Clamping

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Terry
 I use a maple piece/shelf held under the belly (temporarily ) rail  cutout 
with wedges . Clamp with C clamps.
  Dale

To those in the habit of gluing soundboards to  piano rims......
 
In the high treble along the belly rail, the  belly rail is commonly not 
vertical, but rather angled a bit towards the  pinblock at the upper edge where 
the soundboard to rim joint is. This presents  a bit of a clamping challenge. I 
have used go-bars in these kinds of areas in  the past, but would greatly 
prefer to use a clamp. Also, when gluing the board  to a cut-off bar in the area 
where the cut-off overlaps the horizontal  portion of the belly rail (and this 
can be quite wide on well-built pianos)  presents an area where a traditional 
clamp cannot be used. Again, one can use  the go-bar, but I wonder if some of 
the wonderfully invent-ful participants of  this list haven't come up with 
some kind of ingenious/superior method of  clamping in these areas.
 
Ideas?
 
Terry Farrell
 
_www.farrellpiano.com_ (http://www.farrellpiano.com/) 



 

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