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[Andrew and Rebeca Anderson]

Thump,
The problem I have with old boards isn't stiffness.  It is 
softness.  That is, crushed wood fibers no longer transmitting 
vibrations through the board.  Evidenced by loss of power and 
sustain, typically more obvious along cracks that close and open 
annually.  Actually Georgia is probably a lot better place 
comparatively when it comes to the quantity and average extreme of 
humidity swings.  High humidity alone is not a big wood problem (it 
is a metal problem), it is humidity cycling that causes the damage.

I know of a fine old upright in NM that was kept in a part of the 
house that was not evaporatively cooled.  It had beautiful tone.  It 
has since been moved to a more extreme, conditioned, environment.  I 
saw cracks this winter that were new.

Andrew Anderson

At 07:16 PM 2/8/2006, you wrote:
>How come is it that old boards are denigrated for
>getting stiff ( i.e. "petrification" ) and this is
>mentioned as undesirable.
>      Yet it is added stiffness which is the goal with
>epoxying of old boards, to make them
>"more responsive".
>      Me confused.
>      Thump
>
>P.S. I'm beginning to fear that Ron doesn't actually
>love me......
>
>
>--- Ron Nossaman <rnossaman@cox.net> wrote:
> >
> > Well, YOU'RE sure missing something if this is all
> > you got out
> > of all the list discussion on soundboards.
> >
> > For instance - of all those hundreds of clobbered
> > pianos
> > you've heard that didn't sound nearly as good as
> > your four
> > exceptional uprights, how many of them had
> > compression crowned
> > boards? Of those that did, why didn't they sound as
> > good as
> > these exceptional uprights? Why don't ALL Knabes,
> > Ivers &
> > Ponds, and Packards sound this wonderful?
> >
> > When you can explain that to US rationally, perhaps
> > you'll
> > have some idea why these four pianos don't sound
> > that way. And
> > why only four uprights? Shouldn't there be thousands
> > upon
> > thousands of them that sound that good?
> >
> > This is rhetorical, incidentally, rather than the
> > beginning of
> > a discussion.
> >
> > Ron N
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