Facts and nots : was Recommend Rebuilder?

[William R. Monroe]

Which completes the circle (again?) and brings us back to the idea of RC&S 
boards, no?  ;-]

Just a friendly barb, Ric.

William R. Monroe


> Del just reminded us of his article series on the subject, and as I 
> understand the reasoning and what factual material he presents, 
> compression ridges are simply bound to form in significant numbers 
> whenever the compression crowned soundboard method is used.  CC boards and 
> variants have been made for-like-ever so either Del is wrong, which he 
> isnt, or ridges have been around as long as boards have been made this 
> way... and quite likely in similar numbers.  Better materials in the past 
> (if thats indeed true to begin with) could perhaps influence that picture 
> somewhat... but the principles of compression crowning remain the same.
>
> Cheers
> RicB
>
>
>    I guess the older Steinways were not manufactured correctly, as I don't
>    recollect any mention of this before.  So obviously, they just
>    learned to
>    make them correctly. :-)
>    John M. Ross
>    Windsor, Nova Scotia, Canada
>    jrpiano at win.eastlink.ca
>
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