[pianotech] Keep Mehlins Weird

[Tom Driscoll]

Del,
 That's not my picture but it's the same feature as described. So what was the deal with the ribs that taper in the middle ? Any thoughts ?
Tom D.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Delwin D Fandrich 
  To: pianotech at ptg.org 
  Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2012 4:19 PM
  Subject: Re: [pianotech] Keep Mehlins Weird


  That cutout for the float was to alleviate a problem they would otherwise have had with a tenor bridge that ended up way too close to the inner rim.

   

  Ddf

   

  (PS. I did not take this picture-I don't recall who sent it to me but I'm glad to have it.) 

   

   

   

   

   

   

  Delwin D Fandrich

  Piano Design & Fabrication

  6939 Foothill Court SW, Olympia, Washington 98512 USA

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  del at fandrichpiano.com - ddfandrich at gmail.com

   

  From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf Of Tom Driscoll
  Sent: Saturday, September 29, 2012 12:38 PM
  To: pianotech at ptg.org
  Subject: Re: [pianotech] Keep Mehlins Weird

   

  I did have some pics of a small 1930's Mehlin grand but lost them with a machine crash.

   Anyway , floating bass and ribs that are full thickness at the rim and taper to about 3/8" in the middle. This piano is in poor shape so a judgement on the success of these designs was  clouded but it's interesting to see none the less. 

  Chickering , Mehlin and a few others had true R and D it seems.

  Tom D.

     
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