Facts and nots : was Recommend Rebuilder?

[RicB]

Grin... friendlys are always understood and A-ok.  And you are 
correcto... it does bring us back to RC&S quite naturally.. or at least 
alternative construction methods.  People have been looking for the 
magic bullet here as long as pianos have been built and the argument as 
to which set of trade-offs seems likely to go on for as long as they 
continue to be built... with wood anyways. Heck.... I'm in the middle of 
doing a LC&RS board based rebuild so I hardly can be accused of having 
anything against modern thought.   I just recognize and have no problem 
with the fact that lots of folks who know lots about pianos disagree on 
a lot of this stuff... and it appears to me that very much of what is 
disagreed about and claimed, counter-claimed etc etc is in actually 
postulation more then fact. Evidently my insistence on trying to 
separate the two keeps getting me into ired water... but hey... yas 
cants pleases dems alls cans ya ?

Cheers
RicB


    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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