<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" = xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" = xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" = xmlns:st1="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" = xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; = charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium)"> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" = name="State"/> <o:SmartTagType = namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="country-region"/> <o:SmartTagType = namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"/>  <style>  </style>  </head> <body bgcolor=white lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink="#606420"> <div class=Section1> David – you’ll have to = ask Joe Garrett to sort his out. He says it’s buried somewhere among his souvenirs… no he didn’t actually say that! But he says = he’s got one somewhere… FWIW I never noticed “Rippen” = marked anywhere on that Irish Potato.<o:p></o:p> Regards<o:p></o:p>= Michael = G.(UK)<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <div> <div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'> <hr size=2 width="100%" align=center tabindex=-1> </div> From:</spa= n> David Ilvedson [mailto:ilvey@sbcglobal.net] Sent: 26 September 2005 = 14:35 To: pianotech@ptg.org Subject: RE: Info on = Rippen Upright...<o:p></o:p> </div> <o:p> </o:p> That would be the piano, I guess...is Rippen labeled anywhere on the Lindner?   <o:p></o:p> David I.<o:p></o:p> <div style='border:none;border-left:solid black 2.25pt;padding:0cm 0cm = 0cm 4.0pt'> <div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'> <hr size=2 width="100%" align=center> </div> Original = message From: "Michael Gamble" <MICHAEL@GAMBLES.FSNET.CO.UK>To: "Joe Garrett" = <JOEGARRETT@EARTHLINK.NET>, Pianotech <PIANOTECH@PTG.ORG>Received: 9/26/2005 6:24:24 AM Subject: RE: Info on Rippen Upright...<o:p></o:p> Joe – that Irish piano was a Lindner……. (The good Lord preserve us all from these, = begorrah!) ‘Tis said (by leprechauns, of course) that when the factory closed = they paid the workforce off in pianos. It wasn’t the actions that disintegrated, it was the plastic keys. It was also the peculiar = push-fit flanges to which the action parts were attached that broke as did the = clockwork springs by which means the keys were attached to the metal = keyframe… Advanced before their time. Made now, the plastic would be = better!<o:p></o:p> Regards<o:p></o:p>= Michael G.(<st1:country-region = w:st="on"><st1:place = w:st="on">UK</st1:place></st1:country-region>)<o:p></o:p>= <o:p> </o:p> <div> <div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'> <hr size=2 width="100%" align=center tabIndex=-1> </div> From:</spa= n> Joe Garrett [mailto:joegarrett@earthlink.net] Sent: 25 September 2005 = 22:47 To: pianotech Subject: Re: Info on = Rippen Upright...<o:p></o:p> </div> <o:p> </o:p> <div> David Ilvedson said: "Infamous for plastic actions that disintegrate.'<o:p></o:p> </div> <div>  <o:p></o:p> </div> <div> David,<o:p></o:p> </div> <div> That is simply not true. You are confusing the Rippen = with the one made by Rippen's Son, in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region = w:st="on">Ireland</st1:country-region></st1:place>. (Can't remember the name of it, even tho I have one, it's "buried" right = now.<G>)<o:p></o:p> </div> <div> <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">Del</st1:State></st1:place> owned one and it was a good piano, as I recall.<o:p></o:p> </div> <div> Perhaps he can fill you in on = the particulars.<G><o:p></o:p> </div> <div> Regards,  <o:p></o:p> </div> <div> Joe Garrett, R.P.T. Captain, Tool Police Squares R I<o:p></o:p> </div> </div> </div> </body> </html>