mehlin

[Tom Driscoll]

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






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