Hi Ed, Does it still have the tapered pins also? Joe Goss RPT Mother Goose Tools imatunr at srvinet.com www.mothergoosetools.com ----- Original Message ----- From: <A440A at aol.com> To: <pianotech at ptg.org> Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2006 8:52 PM Subject: Re: Why do we need crown? > Ron writes: > > << And I was, of course, talking about something designed and > > built for zero bearing and zero crown throughout, not > > something that was designed for positive bearing and crown and > > badly built. >> > > Greetings, > My parents' piano is a 1870 Hallet & Davis. It is not veneered, but > rather made with solid maple body parts. The soundboard is completely flat,and > was designed that way. The bridge has agraffes that have steeply slanted holes > in them, and they alternate so that the back strings are either rising from > them to meet the hitch pins, or slanting just as steeply down to the hitch. The > effect of the alternating bearing is to rigidly lock the board in place. This > piano has a boomy bass and a weak treble. > I tried all sorts of things, but there was no way to get an even > response out of this board. I have some rather serious misgivings about flat > soundboards. > Regards, > > Ed Foote RPT > http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html > www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html >
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