soundboards

[baoli liu]

I had worked with some violin makers years back.A new
vilon usually sounds a little harsh at the first
beginning,after some playing,the sound becomes more
"mature" and pure.For a very old violin,to replace a
new "base bean"(underneath the base side of the
belly,similar to a piano rib) can always give an old
instrument more power.

Baoli


--- Cy Shuster <741662027@theshusters.org> wrote:

> I went to the Open House at the North Bennet Street
> School in Boston in 
> November, and was astonished to find that those
> arched violin tops are 
> *carved* into that shape, not steamed or otherwise
> bent as are soundboards. 
> A slab of wood about an inch thick is laboriously
> scraped down to about 2mm 
> thickness, in a doubly-arched curve.
> 
> --Cy Shuster--
> Bluefield, WV
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Don Mannino" <donmannino@comcast.net>
> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 12:55 AM
> Subject: Re: soundboards
> 
> 
> > From what I have heard, old violin tops do not
> generally fail structurally 
> > from compression and collapse (at least well made
> ones).  They are made 
> > completely differently, and they work very
> differently, than piano 
> > soundboards.
> >
> > Don Mannino RPT
> 
> 
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