Dale, I'll check it out more carefully next visit. I was pressed for time and noticed this stuff just before leaving as I was lubing a trap lever. Del spoke to our Boston chapter last year about this period in piano design where real experimentation-innovation -originality was attempted by some manufacterers. After sitting in front of any number of Chinese made grand piano's with seemingly identical designs this piano is a breath of fresh air. Tom D. Hi Tom Is it reversed crowned perhaps? See....... nothing new. Dale List, I serviced a very interesting 5' 1930? ( I left my atlas on the desk) Mehlin grand today. First glance was very typical small grand design. Cantilevered bass bridge but with a pretty decent backscale length. The real surprise came from below. The bass was floated and had a 3" wide serpentine cuttoff . The ribs were "reverse" tapered . That is the ends of each rib were around 1" thick at the rim and tapered to around 5/16 " thick in the middle. I'll bring my camera next time and pass along some images. Really cool design stuff. The overall condition was fair to poor and I really would have liked to hear this thing out of the box way back when. Any of youze belly heads worked on one of these? Tom Driscoll RPT ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See what's free at AOL.com. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/20070510/edd9b54d/attachment.html
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