<!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 6.00.2900.2180" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hey Ric,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I think we began to rebuild the same = piano. The whippens are also stamped with a 1879 date, but I wonder if this date = has something to do with a certain patent that Steinway developped at that time..</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Do you recognize the parts I have = pictured? do they look the same as your parts do?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Our "A" is a NY "A" and the serial = might be around 130000, as I remember. I do not have the exact number recorded in my computer.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Bye,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Quentin</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML>