Please, no namby pamby harpsichords here! <g> Old ways really are best ways, sometimes. The original makers found their way through research, trial and error, player/audience feed back, to make great sounding and playing instruments. We have had to rediscover how to do this, but if you put a neupert or Sabathil up against a Dowd, Hubbard, Wolf, Phillips, Skowroneck or many, many others you'll be shocked how much better the seemingly underbuilt old style instrument sustains, projects and expresses itself. But of course given that you are going to save this behemoth, you might as well make it structurally sound. What the heck, it may live to bemuse yet another generation... --Dave On 9/16/10 7:10 PM, Joseph Garrett wrote: > Frank, > I know all of that! Thanks for the input, but the owner wants the > instrument as it was intended by Sabatihl, (even tho I know that it's not a > good design). I'm just making it so that it won't self-destruct again. Am I > making it beefier were needed? You betcha! Will it REALLY sound like a > delicate little, (mamby pamby), harpsichord? NOPE! Wasn't designed like > that to begin with.<G> --
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