Hi Del. Tuned a piano yesterday and thought about you and this post. 1927 5' 5" Sohmer Cupid Model. What a nice little piano. Cheek blocks about 3/4" wide and then the rim. Piano was not more than 3" wider than the keyboard. Real trim little petite rear end - just wide enough for the bass bridge (might such a small rear soundboard area be insufficient for bass?). The piano really had a Paris model look about it - long and lean - and that can look real attractive! Piano had a nice hefty rim, four or five big braces running from the belly rail to the rim, etc. Not much of a cut-off bar for the soundboard - long bridge was really off to the one side of the board. Big, big sound to the piano (of course I had just come from tuning what was likely the worst, most dead, Kimball spinet I had ever tuned), tone was not so hot, but you gotta wonder what was screwed up when the piano was restrung and new hammers, etc. FWIW. Terry Farrell ----- Original Message ----- From: "Delwin D Fandrich" <pianobuilders@olynet.com> To: <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 2:16 AM Subject: Re: Piano Size & Shape SNIP> > Del > >
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