> Anyway, very interesting rib construction. I had never seen anything > quite like this. I have the original soundboard from an 1890s Knabe > grand that I guess I'll just have to yank a rib off of and take a closer > look at it. Anyone ever seen anything like this before? > > Terry Farrell Yes, from an old Knabe grand, only the radii were a tad tighter. Nearly as I could tell, only the top four ribs were laminated. I speculated that they crowned the longer ribs by clamping them (bowed) in a jig and running them through a saw. Dale crowns them this way, and I used to before I started laminating them in cauls. Shorter ribs with tighter crown radii are hard to bend in jigs like that, so I envisioned them ripping thinner strips, and gluing the results to a straight backing for the short ribs. Seemed like a reasonable approach to me. Ron N
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