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1000# of pressure! 
There’s probably at least two 2"x4"s under that soundboard.
What soundboard? That thing has to be machined out of a solid block of high tensile steel to withstand those forces! If it’s not I wouldn’t like to be in the vicinity when she blows .
What would you call it, escept hybrid? 
Handy thing however!
It’s both beautiful and utterly hideous at the same time. 
and the reason I play mountain dulcimer instead of hammered dulcimer is because I don’t want to tune all those strings…
My duo partner’s 30-year-old Ovation decided to field-strip itself onstage last year. Soundboard let go in 3 large cracks and 4 smaller ones, and the classical-style tuners came apart, sending bits through the audience. Members of the audience collected guitar chunks and returned them while I ran to the car for the backup: a nasty old Yamaha that still had seaweed stuck to it from the beach.
$1000 later, the Ovation lives. I stand on the side away from the headstock, now.
To each his own, I suppose. But $1000 to repair an Ovation…? 
It was a a 12-fret, wide neck New Yorker style. He go me to look for one on Ebay, but apparently they’re rare. The repair also included some decent electronics - seems things have come a long way in thirty years.
I’ll admit it.
I want one!!!
Aldon
-Just let Norman Blake near that thing and look out!
That was my first thought. Imagine the harmonics you have to deal with on the overlapping strings.