<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16640" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif" size=2>I recently tuned a S&S M from the 20's with very unusual carvings on the case, legs, bench, etc. The client told me her grandma carved the piano back in the 30's. While I'm thinking "yea, right" she say's, " and she also cared the table, chairs,chinet, and on and on around the room". Sure enough, everything was obviously carved by the same person. The story goes out of work piano carvers we're roaming the country during the depression looking for work, grandma hired one to help her and show her how to carve the piano and everything else in her house. Her name and date was carved on the back of a piano leg.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif">Fenton</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif" size=2>Hi Dean</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif" size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif" size=2>I noticed the ornate, but abused legs on this piano, and they remind me of the chap who currently does all my cabinet work. I met him after tuning a Steinway square and told the customer how amazing it was to have the original bench, with the ornate legs and all, a perfect match to the piano legs in every detail.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif" size=2>Oh no, she said, we had Gerrie make the bench, and he hand carved the legs, scaled down, to match !!!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif" size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif" size=2>If any one needs ornate or complicated reproductiond, I'd be happy to provide more info . .</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif" size=2>cheers</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif" size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif" size=2>Jim Kinnear</FONT></DIV></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> </BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>