A First Tuning (and tuning / moisture content stability question)

[Ron Nossaman]

> Makes sense.  So when you get an old piano that has bridge cap AND 
> soundboard compression damage, you get a piano that is stable 
> tuning-wise, but is unlikely to sound particularly good.
>  
> Thanks,
>  
> Dave


That's been my experience, and if a piano has significant 
climate related soundboard damage, it will pretty much 
inevitably have similar bridge cap damage. If my time machine 
wasn't on the fritz and needing parts that haven't been 
invented yet, I'd love to fire it up and see what an epoxy 
laminated veneer cap will look like in fifty or a hundred 
years. It's my intent, expectation, and hope that they will 
fare much better than the solid wood caps we fight so much today.

Ron N