negativ curved soundboard

danny boddin danny.boddin at pandora.be
Wed Jun 18 13:53:39 MDT 2008


Custommer wants me to write an expertise on grandpiano Kawai GS80 2.40meter
° 1980 bought in a pianoshop in 2005
The piano was renovated at SAP in Poland. The duplex bridges where not
installed correctly: they started at the left and end up with one string
left without, unisons don’t fit on the same duplex,  anyway this is already
a main reason to complain. Some comments on this duplexproblem  related to
tuningstability are welcom.

The soundboard is negativ crowned. I think: soundboard originlly dried for
Japanese market, in renovation at SAP Poland extrmely dried out, restrung
with to much downbearing and finally collapsed negativ, any other thoughts
about why a soundboards becomes negativ crowned? Custommer payed 15.000 EUR
for this instrument,
Should he accept the fact of negativ crown? Will the board get even more
negativ figures in the future? Any experience how negativ crown influences
the sound and why?

Be happy to get a lot of comment on this issue,
Greetings from Belgium
Danny boddin
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