<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 5:31 AM, Jon Page wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><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><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><font face="Arial" color="#000000">Being a foreigner (ferengi) I would like to know what you guys mean </font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" cite="" style="padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; "><font face="Arial" color="#000000">with "stretcher"?</font></blockquote><div><br><br></div><div>That is the part of the case in front of the pin block and plate,</div><div>removable on some Ferengi pianos, that stretches from one</div><div>side to the other. Actually it's probably fit fairly well and not put</div><div>under any tension, otherwise it would have a tendency to pull</div><div>the sides inwards.</div><div><br></div><div>Not much call for plank stretchers these days. Even after cutting</div><div>it twice and still being too short, it's only short on one end; hence</div><div>the birth of the center medallion.</div><div><br>Regards,<br><br>Jon Page</div></div></span></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>OK Jon, </div><div><br></div><div>Now I understand it.</div><div>"stretcher" is actually a strange name.</div><div>In my country it has a ridiculous name and nobody understands it. </div><div><br></div><div>friendly greetings</div><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>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>