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<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=2>......was... you know
what.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=2><FONT face=Arial>A long time ago, in an age where the
pen was considered mightier than the sword (as against now when some refuse to
accept that the Word <FONT size=1>(TM) <FONT size=2>is now</FONT> </FONT><FONT
size=2>mightier than the pen), before anyone could just "extract" and
"re-format" "data" into a "compilation" at the whisk of a mouse movement and
before I could afford to buy, at that time a very expensive but cheaply made
reference work called the PeePingA, I drew up a chart showing customers how to
date their beloved "upright(eous) antiquity" without reference to the serial
number. I drew profiles of pianos more or less relative in size categorized into
the decades in which they "may" have been produced. This worked as a very
generalized guide to dating pianos made in the UK and on the continent based on
the casework style. It might not be relevant in the USA but you are free to use
it both in "idea" and "method".</FONT></FONT></FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=2>Here is a "real" copy of that
chart.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><STRONG>
</STRONG><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><U>Alan's
Graphic Guide To Dating A Piano</U>.</FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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( perhaps I should re-phrase
that)</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have deliberately omitted the
graphic interpretation of the pianos from the Aeolian Era as the image may
be considered obscene.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=2>The author is not privy to clinging
mercilessly to what is after all an outmoded guide, the accuracy and resolution
of which requires much interpolation on the part of the user, so, the
clandestine police network amongst the lurkers need not even contemplate
pouncing.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=2>Cop E Wright</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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