Bell Shaped Knabe

[Carl Meyer]

I have a Sohmer symetigrand made in 1897.  A tech in our chapter had one similar that he rebuilt and then traded for a white baldwin.  They are clumsy to move.

Carl Meyer  Assoc. PTG
Santa Clara, California
cmpiano@attbi.com   



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Driscoll" <tomtuner@attbi.com>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2002 2:02 PM
Subject: RE: Bell Shaped Knabe


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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-pianotech@ptg.org [mailto:owner-pianotech@ptg.org] On Behalf
> Of Ojaituner2@AOL.COM
> Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2002 3:40 PM
> To: pianotech@ptg.org
> Subject: Bell Shaped Knabe
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> Hi List,
> 
> Just bought a little bell shaped Knabe grand, Ser.#135116, '46.
> Anyone with any history or knowledge on this they would like to share
> would 
> be much appreciated.
> Thanks,
> Dennis Ashly RPT/PTG
> Sounds like a knockoff of the Mason Hamlin Symetrigrand
> .(spelling?)I think both manufacturers were in Rochester in the same
> factory in 47. Jack Wyatt is the man who would know for sure.
> 
> Tom Driscoll.   
> P.S. Jack, How's that book coming?
> 
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