<font color='navy' size='2' face='Comic Sans MS, sans-serif'><font size="2"><font face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">Hi</font></font> <font size="2" color="navy" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">Terry<br>   I've enjoyed these pictures again and the discussion of engineering of course but where is this piano  now and more importantly..<u>..what does it sound like</u>? Who plays it? I don't care how subjective the words you may use to describe it are,  or may seem to some, but I'd like to know. Any recordings?<br>  I don't know what year this M&H is but I have heard original ones that had a very well made rib scale with more smaller ribs in the top treble  and 17 ribs total. 17 ribs is the same number as a stock D so it had sufficient mass and stiffness from the original design to support crown and drive tone. <br>  Not only that but the 1905 I heard.... sounded stellar, old strings and all. Amazing sonorous sustain and a balanced  scale thru out. Honestly....I would have been hard pressed to think that in this case the design could have been improved substantially. So I'm curious about all this as I have a Gorgeous Victorian Hardman upright that Carl Meyer gave me before he died and that I will rebuild at some point<br>  Just my thoughts on it.<br> Dale<br> <br> <div style="clear:both"><font size="1" color="royalblue"><b><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, Serif"><font color="black"><font color="mediumblue" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">Dale Erwin... 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I may have gotten a little gray, but I can still get real aggressive.........</div> <div><br> </div> <div>Mmmmmmm, hard maple splinters with hide glue sauce!</div> <div><br> </div> <div><img id="60050bc5-69d5-4518-b17f-935c33ecb1b2" src="cid:3EA1F467-B05D-42AB-9A67-CE463CE5BAA3" height="480" width="640"></div> <div><br> </div> <div>Terry Farrell</div> <br> <div> <div>On May 17, 2012, at 10:22 PM, Dean May wrote:</div> <br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"> <style>#AOLMsgPart_2_74e1c872-ee11-4cd6-97bb-2b8481ea7a38 td{color: black;} @font-face {font-family:"Lucida Calligraphy"; panose-1:3 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1;} @font-face {font-family:"CAC Leslie";} @font-face {font-family:AGaramond;} #AOLMsgPart_2_74e1c872-ee11-4cd6-97bb-2b8481ea7a38 p.MsoNormal,#AOLMsgPart_2_74e1c872-ee11-4cd6-97bb-2b8481ea7a38 li.MsoNormal,#AOLMsgPart_2_74e1c872-ee11-4cd6-97bb-2b8481ea7a38 div.MsoNormal {margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} #AOLMsgPart_2_74e1c872-ee11-4cd6-97bb-2b8481ea7a38 a:link,#AOLMsgPart_2_74e1c872-ee11-4cd6-97bb-2b8481ea7a38 span.MsoHyperlink {color:blue; text-decoration:underline;} #AOLMsgPart_2_74e1c872-ee11-4cd6-97bb-2b8481ea7a38 a:visited,#AOLMsgPart_2_74e1c872-ee11-4cd6-97bb-2b8481ea7a38 span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed {color:purple; text-decoration:underline;} #AOLMsgPart_2_74e1c872-ee11-4cd6-97bb-2b8481ea7a38 p.MsoAutoSig,#AOLMsgPart_2_74e1c872-ee11-4cd6-97bb-2b8481ea7a38 li.MsoAutoSig,#AOLMsgPart_2_74e1c872-ee11-4cd6-97bb-2b8481ea7a38 div.MsoAutoSig {mso-margin-top-alt:auto; margin-right:0in; mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto; margin-left:0in; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} #AOLMsgPart_2_74e1c872-ee11-4cd6-97bb-2b8481ea7a38 pre {margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Courier New";} #AOLMsgPart_2_74e1c872-ee11-4cd6-97bb-2b8481ea7a38 span.EmailStyle18 {mso-style-type:personal-reply; font-family:Arial; color:navy;} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in;} #AOLMsgPart_2_74e1c872-ee11-4cd6-97bb-2b8481ea7a38 div.Section1 {page:Section1;} </style> <div link="blue" vlink="purple" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space;-webkit-line-break: after-white-space" lang="EN-US"> <div class="Section1"> <div class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy">Nice to have you back, Terry. I missed your cool pictures. You are looking a little grayer around the muzzle there…</span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New'; font-size: 13px; white-space: pre; "> </span></div> </div> </div> </blockquote></div> <br> </div>  </div> </font></font>