30 Soundboard

[Frederic Laureano]

Anywood glue will help reattach a loose rib. I would not attempt to fill the cracks with epoxy. The cracks will [probably disappear in the humid months and reappear in the drier months. Shimming the cracks following proper woodworking procedures will offer better results but probably will crack again in the future. Cracks are not the end of the board but loss of crown is.

Ron, all: What sonic reasons merit a new board or are they mostly vetted and valued by eye? For instance what are typical before and after ring times? Is there a favored ratio of ring time decline from bass to treble? Is dynamic contrast objectively measurable and are there known volume and sustain times to aim for? Down bearing measurements are often mentioned. What else please?

Lack of humidity is your main problem with cracked soundboards. Couple that with age and the soundboard panel doesn't stand a chance of doing it's job after many decades of this. There's been numerous attempts made to save cracked soundboards and the test of time after the repair has proven these procedures to be a waste of time. Filling the crack with material that doesn't expand and contract like wood will generate a new crack right along side the repair. Meanwhile the customer is out the money and the soundboard is still compromised.

In short, the climate in Turkey is not kind to soundboards for the long term exposure pianos typically take. I'd advise the customer to consider a newer replacement piano and then install a piano climate/humidity control system such as Dampp-Chaser.

Thank for All, I read all comments here. I will discuss with my customer. Actually the piano coming from old brand. It is hard to build up or find new soundboard and also there is no advance workshop to replace new soundboard etc. For urgent I will glue and I will tell everything to my customer about situation of his piano.

Either way, I'll have our user support team follow up with you about this. They will be reaching out to you via the email associated with your Pandora account. Please be on the look out for an email from them.

So twice now I've done enough surveys on Soundboard for $5 Amazon Gift cards, and twice now after entering in the correct email address, I've gotten nothing in my email for them. I've checked spam, and nothing there either. Is there any way for me to get these rewards or no? Should I just stop doing the Soundboard surveys since I can't seem to get the rewards? I mean, this is definitely through Soundboard that I'm obtaining points through surveys, checked and double checked.

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I took a Soundboard servey on 2/25, which said I had 45 points (before the servey), I got another email today, which now says I have 0 points, but I did NOT redeem anything, nor get any email saying I got anything.

Can you please tell me where did you summited your issue regarding missing points/rewards because I followed a link for that sort of thing but never got a confirmation or number case to verify the query went through. Thanks.

Last month I took a survey for 5 points and in the email it said I had 45 soundboard points. This month my email says I have 0 soundboard points, yet I never received an email about redeeming my 50 points or receiving a gift card.

For future reference, when you submit the survey that puts you over the 50 point mark, you will get automatically redirected to a new URL where you have to fill out a simple form with your email address to request the reward.

Thanks for the answers. One related question, is it possible to download a mp3 file uploaded to soundboard. I uploaded it quite some time ago and deleted the original file. If I want to set the mp3 to a server I first need the mp3 ;).

I would like to cast a sound file (MP3) from a Raspberry_Pi in my own network to a Google Home Mini. Now I have already tried the following but that is probably too simple:

The question is: is this possible? and if so: What do I have to do to get this working?

@robertklep can you help me please, with a complete URL line?

Well, there is no elegant solution for your usecase using homey only, yet. At least I am not aware of any.

What crossed my mind though. It should be fairly easy to implement a simple Webservice as homey app to just store and host files. But am not sure whether it would be worth investigating in such a development, given it really covers just very few and special usecases. If you have nodejs on your pi you could also just run a very simple nodejs app there to serve the file

The fact is, even brand new Steinways have varying quality of soundboards from one piano to the next. It is as much art as science crafting a soundboard in a piano. So, if you replace the soundboard in your piano, only then will you discover what sound the instrument will have.

Even if the soundboard on your piano had cracks or separation of the seams, a good rebuilder can rework the board and get excellent results if done properly. If the soundboard on your piano has no issues and exhibits good crown essential for proper tone, I personally would feel comfortable utilizing it when rebuilding the piano. If the piano is in good enough condition to assess the quality of the tone, that would be extremely valuable in determining the best course of action. If the piano projects a powerful, sustained tone into the high register, then it will probably do a good job for you after rebuilding.

Early on, I restrung many pianos without adjusting crown in them. I was always disappointed in those results. Once I learned the recrowning techniques, I was blown away at how much difference there was after recrowning. The difference is an old piano often sounds "thunky" in the low tenor section above the break. I liken the tone to that of banging on radiator pipes instead of strings. Baby grands are especially bad about this. I listen to the resonance of each board before crowning, and again after crowning, and there is a huge difference.

I am talking about a piano case and soundboard alone. All strings and plate are in another room. A well crowned soundboard will ring like a tympani with not a string in sight. Also you can listen to the tuning of the board alone by whacking it in various places with the heel of your hand. Near the bass bridge the ring is lower pitched and near the treble bridge the ringing is higher pitched. A crowned board will ring a second or two. An uncrowned board will go thunk like hitting your dining table with a fist.

Yes the crown, when returned, corrects most downbearing problems the piano used to have. This noticeably affects the ability of the piano to stay in tune. Crown is originally put into the board by shaping the ribs before they are glued on, AND the board is kept in a completely dry room. The ribs are glued on and the crown is there.

While still dry the board is glued into the piano rim. The heavier the rim the less likely it is to let the crown flatten. Then the finished unit is brought out into the normal moist air. The board is unable to spread out because it is glued into the rim, now. The soundboard takes on moisture in the air and grows wider across grain. The only way the extra wood can expand is up. The soundboard takes on moisture so fast that it is almost possible to see the crown rise as you watch. You cannot depend only on this extra moisture driven crown, since you do not know what climate the piano will be put into in the future.

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