<!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 id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bottomMargin=7 bgColor=#ffffff leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7> <DIV>Dale,</DIV> <DIV>    I'll check it out more carefully next visit.</DIV> <DIV>    I was pressed for time and noticed this stuff just before leaving as I was lubing a trap lever.</DIV> <DIV>    Del spoke to our Boston chapter last year about this period in piano design where real experimentation-innovation -originality was attempted by some manufacterers.</DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Moderne>    </FONT><FONT face=Arial>After sitting in front of any number of Chinese made grand piano's with seemingly identical designs this piano is a breath of fresh air.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Moderne>    </FONT></DIV> <DIV><STRONG> </STRONG>Tom D.</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV> <DIV>  Hi Tom</DIV> <DIV>   Is it reversed crowned perhaps? See....... nothing new.</DIV> <DIV>  Dale</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> <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></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></FONT><BR><BR><BR> <DIV><FONT style="FONT: 10pt ARIAL, SAN-SERIF; COLOR: black"> <HR style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px"> See what's free at <A title=http://www.aol.com?ncid=AOLAOF00020000000503 href="http://www.aol.com?ncid=AOLAOF00020000000503" target=_blank>AOL.com</A>. </FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>