<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Gene - IMHO, you really need to have a lengthy conversation with Del. His design modifications produced an incredible sound from my M&H upright.....</div><div><br></div><div><img id="4eaa13c7-93be-4cad-8ec7-3933e10847b4" height="480" width="640" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:4FC17778-093D-4C24-B43F-0598746F3840"></div><div><br></div><div>Terry Farrell</div><div><br></div><div>PS: Oh, and after you glue in that new soundboard (hide glue, preferably) and need to clean up any squeeze-out, I've got just the solution for you...... ;-)</div><div><br></div><div><img id="3f52cd8e-18b2-4067-8efb-a39be8b68fef" height="480" width="640" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:DAEBE08F-C953-4583-BAE3-1F4329526F41"></div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On May 17, 2012, at 8:48 PM, Gene Nelson wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="State"><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PersonName"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="Section1"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><br></font><pre><font size="1" color="black" face="Comic Sans MS"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black">Just getting it apart now so I can measure and record the scale.</span></font><font size="1" color="navy" face="Comic Sans MS"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:
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color:black">No wound trichords to deal with but no trans bridge. – not ruling out one for redesign depending on the scale. The end of the tenor bridge come very close to the bottom board/rim structure. The bass bridge seems more nicely positioned.<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font size="1" color="black" face="Comic Sans MS"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black">Bass bridge is canto levered and straight. The canto lever will go.<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font size="1" color="black" face="Comic Sans MS"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black">Huge birdseye maple space filler/cut off device in the lower right and a smaller cut off bar in the upper left. Might just keep that part the way it is.<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font size="1" color="black" face="Comic Sans MS"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black">Do you know if those pins that look like bridge pins – driven into the plate - that offset/terminate the wound bass strings just below the tuning pins are removable?<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font size="1" color="black" face="Comic Sans MS"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black">Gene</span></font></pre></div></div></o:smarttagtype></o:smarttagtype></o:smarttagtype></blockquote></div></body></html>