Assessing bearing on Ivers and Pond 1904 upright. Advice sought.

[Farrell]

Measure front and rear downbearing in several places in every section of the 
scale - especially in the killer octave area. Measure crown between all 
ribs. Play the piano - how does it sound? Is there a bad killer octave area? 
What do other areas of the scale sound like?

IMHO, if you have no audible killer octave area and good overall soundboard 
function and reasonable downbearing and crown everywhere, you might have 
good results with the original soundboard. If you have an audible killer 
octave area or other bad areas and no crown and no downbearing, you are 
pretty much guaranteed you need a new board. If it sounds good, but you are 
lacking downbearing and/or crown, it's going to be a crap shoot if you don't 
replace the board.

And if you need any recommendations on where to go to get the soundboard 
replaced, I could probably give you a name.....

Terry Farrell
Farrell Piano
www.farrellpiano.com

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "gordon stelter"


> I'm getting ready to dissassemble a magnificent,
> massive
> Ivers and Pond "artcase" upright with mandolin rail,
> soft pedal compensating WN&G action, etc..  Besides
> checking "that there is some", what guidleines for
> checking the bearing on this thing, strung and up to
> pitch, are there, before I break it down and lose all
> this available data ? In other words: how much should
> I look for, and what is the best method of measuring
> it?
>
>    Thanks!
>     G