<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2873" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3>  Ron</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3>   Perhaps I haven't said this in plain ol english but all the fine examples of reverse crown set ups I've seen are with positive bearing set ups pushing on a reverse crown board..  Sohmer, Beckwith,Bauer, & others all positive. I've seen a few conventioanl set ups which thanks to the collapsed boards,  although showing postive crown, were in fact they were hanging big time on the bridge pins.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3> Dale</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2><BR>Maybe it's just me, but I can't help but wonder why anyone <BR>would want to design a piano with negative crown and bearing. <BR>I don't think of any benefit to doing so.<BR><BR>Ron N</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>