Measuring soundboard thickness

[Greg Newell]

Dean,
         Ron Overs did this on one his own grands. Check the archives or 
his web site and you can see it and perhaps even his comments about it.

Greg Newell


At 09:53 AM 10/1/2005, you wrote:
>I've always been intrigued by the routed groove I've seen around the
>perimeter of a Seiler soundboard. If you were rebuilding a piano with
>otherwise good board but the panel was thicker than what you wanted, I
>wonder what kind of results you could achieve by routing a similar
>groove. In such experimentation it would certainly be helpful to know
>what the panel thickness was.
>
>Has anyone tried such a technique? At least around the tail area and
>bass side. It seems it could yield results similar to floating the board
>in the bass area.
>
>Dean
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>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] On
>Behalf Of Farrell
>Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2005 4:28 AM
>To: Pianotech
>Subject: Re: Measuring soundboard thickness
>
>I do not design soundboards, but I do build them. I am not aware of any
>good
>way to measure panel thickness when glued to the piano rim, except to
>measure with calipers at the nosebolt holes and at the belly rail edge
>(that
>will certainly give you a general idea).
>
>But that begs the question: why would anyone need to know the panel
>thickness? Seems to me that in some situations one may be curious of the
>
>original panel thickness if one were replacing the soundboard, but then
>one
>would have the luxury of measuring with the panel out and could use
>destructive techniques if need be. But what would you use that info for
>if
>you were not going to replace the soundboard?
>
>Terry Farrell
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "V T"
> > I am sure this is old stuff for those of you who
> > design soundboards, but I will post it anyway.  I
> > often wondered about methods of measuring soundboard
> > thickness, once the board is installed.
> >>
> > Vladan
>
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Greg Newell
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