Rib Crowned Hamburgs ?

[Overs Pianos]

>>    Ron
>>   8 mm /.320ish is on the thin side for a 9ft grand of any make . A 
>>board this thin doesn't really need much thinning. In fact it's 
>>probably not thick enough in the treble. I'm unaware of the German 
>>factory's rhetoric on panel thinning. I'm guessing it sounded a bit 
>>thin? grin
>>   Regards
>>   Dale
>>
>>     Very often the factory line doesn't match the actual product. How
>>     often have we heard about the tapering of sound board panels from
>>     S&S. They may have done it at some time but . . . The original board
>>     which I pulled from a 1962 Hamburg D last year had a 8 mm thick panel
>>     everywhere. I still have the original panel at the workshop.
>>
>>     Ron O.
>
>
>Ok guys, why would the treble of a 9' piano be any different from 
>the treble of a 6' piano?
>
>Ron N

I wouldn't regard them as different at all. I would use a similar 
panel thickness in the treble regardless of the length of instrument.

Ron O.
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