Steinway 1098

[Ric Brekne]

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Just ran into this on the net... looking for something else... Its from 
Steinways website. Thought some of you might find it .... well interesting.

Cheers
RicB

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*Soundboard*
Created like the soundboard of violins to give a free and even response 
throughout the entire scale, it is so constructed as to be 8 mm thick in 
the center and tapered to 56 mm as it approaches the rim and outer case 
before being DOUBLE CROWNED. This design permits complete freedom of 
movement, while acting as a homogenous unit to displace a greater amount 
of air, thereby creating a richer and more lasting tonal response. 
Close-grained, quarter-sawn Sitka spruce, a wood having unusual 
stability and vibrance under stress and vibration, is used exclusively 
for the soundboard.

*Ribs
*Made from durable, resinous sugar pine to assure strong and constant 
support of string down-bearing on the soundboard. Rib ends are 
hand-fitted into their mounting surfaces virtually locking in the 
important soundboard crown.

*Bridges*
Treble: Hard rock maple vertical laminations capped with solid hard rock 
maple; planed to prescribed height, graphite coated, drilled, and 
notched by hand for precise individual string bearing. Design defies 
splitting. Bass: Solid rock maple mounted to cantilevered at splined 
base. Maple doweled, glued, and screwed to soundboard.


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