thanks, I guess the diagonal soundboard with its barring takes over the functioning of the upper braces. Are those lower braces like knees as in spinets of that era?




> Huw Saunders <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Andrew Nolan wrote:
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> ?upper level braces
> 
> meaning, I suppose "aren't there any?" Well, no there aren't except for 
> the 
> tail one I mentioned. I'll let the list know if we find any more when we 
> 
> look inside, but Howard Nelson did look before with an endoscope, and I 
> don't think he'd have missed them.
> 
> Huw Saunders
> London