<!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 6.00.6000.16674" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY style="WORD-WRAP: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space" bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi Andre',</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Long time no hear.........When you lift the fallboard it touches the strecher.  Here are other names used for this part you might know.    Frontal bar: front bar (Pratt, Read & Co.) ; front rail (Baldwin, Schimmel) ; front beam;</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>upper beam (Kawai, Yamaha) ; stretcher (Jellen, Caskey); stiffener bar (Defebaugh); cornice (Steinway); bellyman strip.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Cheers,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Jack Houweling</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=oorebeek@planet.nl href="mailto:oorebeek@planet.nl">andre oorebeek</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech List</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, August 02, 2008 8:24 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: MH BB Pinblock/Stretcher Definition</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>Thank you for your response David.</DIV> <DIV>However, I still don't know what it means, because I don't know what you mean by "cornice".</DIV> <DIV>Do you mean the wooden part one looks at which is situated in front of the pinblock?</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV> <DIV style="WORD-WRAP: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space"> <DIV> <DIV>friendly greetings</DIV> <DIV>from</DIV> <DIV>André Oorebeek</DIV> <DIV><BR class=khtml-block-placeholder></DIV> <DIV>Antoni van Leeuwenhoekweg 15</DIV> <DIV>1401 VW Bussum</DIV> <DIV>the Netherlands</DIV> <DIV><BR class=khtml-block-placeholder></DIV> <DIV>tel :   0031 - 35 6975840</DIV> <DIV>gsm : 0031 - 652388008</DIV> <DIV><BR class=khtml-block-placeholder></DIV> <DIV><A href="mailto:concertpianoservice@planet.nl">concertpianoservice@planet.nl</A></DIV> <DIV><A href="http://www.concertpianoservice.nl">www.concertpianoservice.nl</A></DIV> <DIV><BR class=khtml-block-placeholder></DIV> <DIV>"where music is, </DIV> <DIV>no harm can be"</DIV> <DIV><BR class=khtml-block-placeholder></DIV> <DIV><BR class=khtml-block-placeholder></DIV> <DIV><BR class=khtml-block-placeholder></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><BR> <DIV> <DIV>On Aug 3, 2008, at 5:11 AM, David G. Hughes, RPT wrote:</DIV><BR class=Apple-interchange-newline> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 12px Verdana; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0"> <DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>----- Original Message -----</FONT> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>From: "andre oorebeek" <</FONT><A href="mailto:oorebeek@planet.nl"><FONT face=Arial size=2>oorebeek@planet.nl</FONT></A><FONT face=Arial size=2>></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>To: "Pianotech List" <</FONT><A href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org"><FONT face=Arial size=2>pianotech@ptg.org</FONT></A><FONT face=Arial size=2>></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2008 7:04 PM</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Subject: Re: MH BB Pinblock</FONT></DIV></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><BR><FONT size=2></FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>> Being a foreigner (ferengi) I would like to know what you guys mean <SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>> with "stretcher"?<BR>><SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>> OOR</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#ff0000><STRONG>Hello Andre',</STRONG></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#ff0000><STRONG></STRONG></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#ff0000><STRONG>    In this country we refer to the cornice as the "stretcher" because it spans or<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><EM>stretches</EM><SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>from one side of the case to the other.</STRONG></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#ff0000><STRONG></STRONG></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT color=#ff0000 size=3><STRONG>    Dave Hughes, RPT<BR></STRONG></FONT></FONT></DIV></DIV></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR> <DIV apple-content-edited="true"><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 12px Verdana; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0"> <DIV style="WORD-WRAP: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space"> <DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV></DIV></DIV></SPAN></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>