---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment J Patrick Draine wrote: > On Wednesday, May 21, 2003, at 11:20 AM, Ron Nossaman wrote: > > > There's a couple I can think of: Lack of a rational justification for > > doing so (that I know of, at any rate) > > Rationality aside, my understanding (absorbed long ago from I where I > can't recall) was that this was Bechstein's modification for pianos > being sent outside Europe (ie the nasty old USA). What do the Europeans > say -- do you have top soundboard buttons on Bechsteins over there? > Patrick Draine > We have a 5 year old Bechstein at the Uib. I'll see if I can take a picture of it tommorrow so you can see for yourself ! Cheers RicB -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. UiB, Bergen, Norway mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html http://www.hf.uib.no/grieg/personer/cv_RB.html ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/7b/a9/34/41/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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