<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2716.2200" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>    Well, live and learn = Joe.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>     From now on I = suppose I'll have to predicate all my statements with " I have never seen", instead = of "All, always, every one", etc.  Thanks for the history lesson. = </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV>Kevin E. Ramsey<BR><A href="mailto:ramsey@extremezone.com">ramsey@extremezone.com</A></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: = black"><B>From:</B> <A title=joegarrett@earthlink.net href="mailto:joegarrett@earthlink.net">Joseph Garrett</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A = title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, June 26, 2002 = 7:37 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> "Double Strings" ie = Bi-chords in Lower bass/Kevin Ramsey</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV>Kevin,<BR>And I quote you: ..."all pianos have single = strings in the low bass".<BR>Untrue. There were several that incorporated = Bi-Chords all the way down to<BR>C1. Broadwood for one. And Collard & = Collard. Of course, that was the lowest<BR>note on the piano, but they did, in = fact put 2 stings for that note. (Hmm?<BR>Only the English <G>)<BR>Best Regards,<BR>Joe Garrett, RPT, (Oregon)</BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>