<html> <head> <style> .hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma } </style> </head> <body class='hmmessage'> Thank you for your answers and thank you for the photos, John. May I forward these photos to a German forum?<br><br>Gregor<br><br><hr>Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:13:39 +0100<br>To: pianotech@ptg.org<br>From: JD@Pianomaker.co.uk<br>Subject: Re: very strange tuning mechanism<br><br> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=unicode"> <meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft SafeHTML"><style> .ExternalClass blockquote, .ExternalClass dl, .ExternalClass ul, .ExternalClass ol, .ExternalClass li {padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;} </style><title>Re: very strange tuning mechanism</title> <div>At 05:54 -0400 22/7/08, Tom Servinsky wrote:</div> <div><br></div> <blockquote>The Mason & Hamlin uprights had a system called the "screw stringer" system will sounds very close to what you are describing. Unusual, but stable system.</blockquote> <div><br></div> <div>Here are some pictures of the Brinsmead screw system on a 6'3" grand, which they used for over 25 years concurrently with traditional wrestplanks on both grands and uprights.  The expense must have been terrific.  Dale Erwin has just restored one of these.  I haven't got round to mine yet.</div> <div><br></div> <div><br></div> <div><br></div> <div><img src="cid:p06240814c4abe0283b19@[10.0.0.1].1.0"></div> <div><img src="cid:p06240814c4abe0283b19@[10.0.0.1].1.1"></div> <div><img src="cid:p06240814c4abe0283b19@[10.0.0.1].1.2"></div> <br /><hr />Get news, entertainment and everything you care about at Live.com. <a href='http://www.live.com/getstarted.aspx ' target='_new'>Check it out!</a></body> </html>