Posted by: Craig Hair
earliest soundboard replacement? - 11/28/12 08:28 AM
Who did the first sounboard replacement outside a factory setting? The earliest I know of is Steve Jellen, and he did his work in the Fifties. Cliff Geers, maybe? though I don't know his timeline.
Posted by: kpembrook
Re: earliest soundboard replacement? - 11/28/12 09:27 AM
Trefz in Philly was doing it in the 60s and probably much earlier.
Posted by: Supply
Re: earliest soundboard replacement? - 11/28/12 12:55 PM
Wasn't it Barnard in the mid 1960s?
Posted by: BDB
Re: earliest soundboard replacement? - 11/28/12 01:01 PM
Soundboards were replaced on harpsichords, particularly when Flemish instruments were reconstructed in France.