<!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 6.00.2900.3243" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Good observation, and good guess on ribs! You are largely correct on both counts. This is an old 1850s Bluthner. Nothing modern about it!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT><IMG alt="" hspace=0 src="cid:03d801c86377$28e9fb20$0401a8c0@DESKTOP" align=baseline border=0></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>----- Original Message ----- <BR>It looks like the grain direction is NOT what it usually is in a grand piano. Is there a reason for this. Are the ribs for this piano running the other way (along the treble bridge)? Or are they not perpendicular to the grain of the board?<BR>Marcel Carey<BR>Sherbrooke, QC</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>