Jd<br>   Cool stuff.  A cream puff is what we call these. Nothing fishy about that<br>   Dale<br> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 3px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"> <div>I have just recommenced work on this piano and am greatly looking forward to hearing how it sounds.  From the look of it when I bought it it had been kept for 100 years in an unused room gathering dust, never played and never tuned -- the perfect restoration candidate.</div> <div><br> </div> <div>I also have a 5'9" Lipp from 1907 but it is not constructed like this.  Whether this design was peculiar to the 6'6" model or whether it was discontinued on all models at the end of the century I don't know.</div> <div><br> </div> <div>JD</div> </BLOCKQUOTE><br> <br> <div id=AOLMsgPart_3_8f68abbc-35de-4885-bbca-288e0fcd719b> <div align=center><IMG src="cid:p0624081dc42aadfddfd9@[10.0.0.1].1.0"></div> <div align=center><br> </div> <div align=center><IMG src="cid:p0624081dc42aadfddfd9@[10.0.0.1].1.1"></div> <div align=center><IMG src="cid:p0624081dc42aadfddfd9@[10.0.0.1].1.2"></div> <div align=center><IMG src="cid:p0624081dc42aadfddfd9@[10.0.0.1].1.3"></div> <div><br> </div> <div><br> </div> <div><br> </div> <PRE>-- </PRE> <div>____________________________________________________________________<SPAN></SPAN>__<br>   Delacour Pianos  *  Silo  *  Deverel Farm  *  Milborne St. Andrew<br>            <SPAN></SPAN>          Dorset DT11 0HX  *  England<br>            <SPAN></SPAN>            Phone:  +44 1202 731031<br>          Mobile: +44 7801 310 689   *   Fax: +44 870 705 3241 ______________________________________________________________________</div> </div> <div id='u8CA6D77383261AA-248-2168' class='aol_ad_footer'><FONT style="color: black; font: normal 10pt ARIAL, SAN-SERIF;"><HR style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px">Get the <A title="http://www.mapquest.com/toolbar?NCID=mpqmap00030000000003" href="http://www.mapquest.com/toolbar?NCID=mpqmap00030000000003" target="_blank">MapQuest Toolbar</A>, Maps, Traffic, Directions & More!</FONT> </div>