mehlin

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Tom:

I've only restored one fully, purely based on sentimental value since these pianos are not very good otherwise. They do, though, have some very interesting design features. Did you notice that the bass bridge pins reverse the dogleg in the middle of the bridge, supposedly I would guess to balance the rotation of the bridge? Also, the cut-out in the bass, and a spectacularly high bass bridge with the plane of the soundboard at somewhere around 10 degrees sloping down from horizontal. 

Paul

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In a message dated 05/10/07 22:04:38 Central Daylight Time, tomtuner at verizon.net writes:
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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