<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Aug 3, 2008, at 9:07 AM, John Delacour wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>At 05:42 +0200 3/8/08, andre oorebeek wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Now I understand it.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">"stretcher" is actually a strange name.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">In my country it has a ridiculous name and nobody understands it.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">...<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">the Netherlands<br></blockquote><br>You don't want to take too seriously the names people invent on the hoof on this list! In England we call it the front rail, and in Schimmel's Pianonomenclatur we get:<br><br>Deutch: Vorstecker</div></blockquote><div><br></div>another 'strange' one.</div><div><br></div><div>If I look in the dictionary, it tells me that "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: arial; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">stecker<i><font color="666666">(die ~)</font></i> als in `<i>Steckdose</i>` "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; "> is : <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0); font-family: arial; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: arial; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0); font-family: arial; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; ">socket <font color="666666">(the ~)</font>, power-point <font color="666666">(the ~)</font>, wall socket <font color="666666">(the ~)</font>, plug-socket <font color="666666">(the ~)</font>, wall plug <font color="666666">(the ~)</font>, electric point <font color="666666">(the ~)</font></span></span></span></div><div><div><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000080" face="arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><br></span></font></div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>England: Lock-rail<br>USA: front bar or rail</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>These I find better suitable.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><br><br>not that I find Schimmel always reliable. Herbert Shead (English) calls it the Front Rail or Lock Front.<br><br>The Lock Rail is the rail on the top front half of a grand holding the lock and also the rail in front of the keys on an upright.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Less practical, because both indeed usually contain a lock.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><br><br>"Stretchers" on a grand piano are the wooden rails that connect twin legs to the lyre on pianos fashionable in the early 20th century. Otherwise stretcher is a term from the boat-building trade.<br><br>JD<br></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for the trouble.</div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -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>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></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></body></html>