<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Re: More on the Broadwood piano</TITLE> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1106" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Yes indeed.  There is some = measurable warp on the spine, (lid hinge), side.  Not sure how structurally devastating it is.  There is no bracing on the bass side at all = other than the rim itself.  There are only two steel braces parallel to the = strings in the entire piano, one at the bass break and one before the high = treble.  There is no plate in the sense that we would think of one today.  = The hitch pins are inserted in what I believe is called a "hitch pin plate", but = because it is on the outside bend of a straight strung piano I don't think there = is a tremendous amount of vertical support.  It doesn't = even make contact with the pin block.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Rob Goodale, RPT</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Las Vegas, NV</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">I believe it's quite common for the older Broadwoods to suffer from = serious warping of the case due to a lack of sufficient structural strength to = support string tension over the long period of time we're talking about. It's something restorers have to deal with in these pianos. We had one of = these instruments at Oberlin and it was a classic case of this problem. It = was unuseable in it's unrestored condition.</BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>