[pianotech] 3 sound boards???

[Ron Nossaman]

On 9/10/2012 12:01 AM, David Lawson wrote:
> I don't know about 3 soundboards, but I tuned a Challen grand the other
> day which had three bridges. Two in the bass on different angles, and
> the treble.  This was a sorry excuse for a grand due its small length,
> (about feet 10inches) with no bass at all. Why they bothered to produce
> such an instrument defies logic. There were three tuning planks, and
> three bridges, and the action had four different sections to match up
> with the stringing. The entire treble was false, which is no pleasure to
> tune. All in all a most disappointing result. A truly useless design IMO
> David Lawson OZ

There doesn't apparently seem to need to be any rationale for someone to 
build their pet hallucination. The mystery for me is why the resulting 
failure so often went into production.
Ron N
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