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

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I guess my asking too many questions afixed a label upon me that have to 
prove doesn't exist as I gain experience.
Marshall
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Farrell" <mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com>
To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Monday, January 09, 2006 7:24 PM
Subject: Re: Assessing bearing on Ivers and Pond 1904 upright. Advice 
sought.


> 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
>
>
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