Soundboard drydown for installation : Dale

[Richard Brekne]

Hi Dale...others.

I've sort of been pondering exactly this kind of thing in relation to 
Rons experiment...which would apparently point out to everyone that when 
the soundboard experiences pressure downwards, instead of pushing on the 
rim it actually tries to pull away from the rim. Since the entire panel 
and a tad bit of the top of the rib will be over the line of centroid 
... there is virtually nothing to push outwards at all... quite the 
opposite.  Implications ??


    " The only thing I can imagine is that as I said in  my earlier
    posting that a bridge which is glued to the board with a light 
    curvature reduces the need to force down the treble & bass ends to
    the  rim as much."


Cheers
RicB