<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <html><head><style type="text/css"></style><title>Re: treble fish on steroids</title></head><body> <div>At 11:15 -0700 15/4/08, Delwin D Fandrich wrote:</div> <div><br></div> <blockquote type="cite" cite>When I started using them -- and teaching others how to use them -- nobody was</blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite>calling them anything. They had not been used -- and rarely seen -- for the best part of a century...</blockquote> <div><br></div> <div>...and for the best part of the one before.  Here is a 6'6" grand from 1899 by Lipp, which I consider the finest of German makers.  The inner rim all round the piano is massive but at the treble, as you see it is extended by a massive block of beech 5-1/4" thick which reaches to the level of the top of the damm.  The "fish" is also integral with the inner rim and the beech frame bearing.</div> <div><br></div> <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> <div><br></div> <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> <x-sigsep><pre>-- </pre></x-sigsep> <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 > </body> </html>