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at 11:58 AM, Porritt, David wrote:</DIV><BR =
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16px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times New =
Roman; font-size: 16px; ">The Steinway D has been redesigned 4 times =
since its first introduction in 1859 as the Style 4. The last changes =
Steinway made were in 1915 so surely that’s modern enough!</SPAN><O:P =
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"></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>Hi Dave,</DIV><DIV>There have been =
scores of small changes in design to the Steinway since 1915. In =
fact, there's not much that's the same except the scale and the action =
rails since then.</DIV><DIV><BR =
class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Ron's piano sounds =
interesting! </DIV><DIV><BR =
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RPT</DIV><DIV>University of South Carolina</DIV><DIV><BR =
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