mehlin

[Ron Nossaman]

>     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.

Do, please. All the anomalies that's phit to photo.


>     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

Not worked on them, but I've seen ( I think I remember it 
being a Mehlin) one with the steeply graded soundboard, about 
4" lower in the tail, with the "drain" cutout in the tail 
curve outside rib #1.
Ron N