<!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 6.00.6000.16441" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Moderne size=2>List,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Moderne size=2>    I serviced a very interesting 5' 1930? ( I left my atlas on the desk) Mehlin grand today.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Moderne size=2>    First glance was very typical small grand design. Cantilevered bass bridge but with a pretty decent backscale length. The real surprise came from below.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Moderne size=2>    The bass was floated and had a  3" wide serpentine cuttoff .</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Moderne size=2>    The ribs were "reverse" tapered .</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Moderne size=2>    That is the ends of each rib were around 1" thick at the rim and tapered to around 5/16 " thick in the middle. I'll bring my camera next time and pass along some images.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Moderne size=2>    Really cool design stuff. The overall condition was fair to poor and I really would have liked to hear this thing out of the box way back when. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Moderne size=2>    Any of youze belly heads worked on one of these?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Moderne size=2>    Tom Driscoll RPT</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>