<!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 6.00.6000.16643" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Pfeiffer mentions it in _The Piano Hammer_(pp. 66-67). He quotes Welcker (writing in 1856, 1864 or 1867) as saying that Greiner has struggled with this action for "more than twenty-five years." </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ed Sutton</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT><BR><BR><FONT face=Arial color=blue size=2>Hi list,</FONT> <BR><FONT size=3> </FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial color=blue size=2>Does anybody recognize this type of early grand from Germany. I'd like to be able to date the piano for  my customer. I think it's around 1830...</FONT> <BR><FONT size=3> </FONT> <BR><FONT size=3> </FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial color=blue size=2>Thanks,</FONT> <BR><FONT size=3> </FONT> <BR><FONT size=3> </FONT> <BR><FONT size=3> </FONT> <BR><FONT face=Arial color=blue size=2>Marc Lanthier</FONT> <BR><A href="http://www.pianolanco.com/"><FONT face=Arial color=blue size=2><U>www.pianolanco.com</U></FONT></A> <BR><FONT size=3> </FONT> <BR> <P><FONT size=2>Internal Virus Database is out-of-date.<BR>Checked by AVG.<BR>Version: 7.5.519 / Virus Database: 269.23.16/1431 - Release Date: 13/05/2008 7:55 PM</FONT> <P></P></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>