Shallow ribs on great old boards.

[Delwin D Fandrich]

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| From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org]On
| Behalf Of Terry
| Sent: January 24, 2005 4:16 AM
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| Subject: Re: Shallow ribs on great old boards.
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| I've yanked apart a couple old upright Knabes. Either those ribs warped over
| time or they had some pretty tight radii cut into them - the ribs had quite
| a bit of crown on them after removing them from the panel.
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| Terry Farrell

Rib crowning was pretty common by the early 1900s. See Wolfenden's "A Treatise
on the Art of Pianoforte Construction." (I know you know that but the subject
does keep coming up.)

Del