The direct repeat was from the following post: http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/2008-February/217575.html Which in turn was a response to your reply to this following post : http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/2008-February/217558.html Your replies indicated you understood the drift of these two posts... indeed in one you even suggested that RC&S designers have the possibility of normalizing differences in rib strengths if this was seen as a desirable... so I don't really see where the "Huh ?" comes from now. Cheers RicB Huh? David Love To repeat. Steinway & Sons, New York and Hamburg, make no attempt at normalizing structural strength factors of wood with the intent of minimalizing resultant differences in sound from panel to panel. Given their basic philosophy that these exact differences are a positive... I dont see why anyone should expect them to. The fact they Steinway chooses not to attempt to do this however, by no means speaks to whether it is possible or not to do so. Cheers RicB
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