<HTML><HEAD> <META charset=US-ASCII http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1505" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"> <DIV> <DIV>Ric,</DIV> <DIV><BR>Thanks!  Your approach is the direction I hope piano rebuilders will take if they undertake invasive procedures with these instruments.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Bill</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 1/18/2007 12:37:32 PM Pacific Standard Time, ricb@pianostemmer.no writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT face=Arial>Bill<BR><BR>Wonderful post.  I agree so much with everything you write.  I would <BR>like to point out that the desire to take into consideration historical <BR>concerns in regards to my own rebuild has led me to re-assemble the old <BR>panel and bridges and build a display box for them accompanied by all <BR>the original scale specs. <BR><BR>Since I have decided to change physical dimensions to some small <BR>degree,  it seemed correct to at least do this much so that if at any <BR>point in time someone wanted the original specs... or wanted to undo <BR>what I have done (will do)  they can.<BR><BR>Cheers<BR>RicB</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>