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<DIV> Hello to All.</DIV>
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<DIV> I have read about a double board in a " Heppe"</DIV>
<DIV>but not a triple. It stated the piano was built by </DIV>
<DIV>another factory for Heppe and the second board</DIV>
<DIV>was attached, installed or whatever after delivery </DIV>
<DIV>to Heppe. My opinion then and now is that it was</DIV>
<DIV>a promotional gimmick.</DIV>
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<DIV> I would to know more about the triple boards.</DIV>
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<DIV> Jack Wyatt </DIV>
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<DIV>In a message dated 9/8/2012 3:45:45 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
rnossaman@cox.net writes:</DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>On
9/8/2012 3:18 PM, David Weiss wrote:<BR><BR>> I'm not sure what the patent
number is, but I saw the piano today.<BR><BR>You would look up the patent
number on Google Patents and see if it <BR>looked like that, or look for
patent numbers on the plate and look them <BR>up. The number I gave you is
indeed to a 1902 patent for an upright with <BR>three
soundboards.<BR><BR><BR>>It<BR>> certainly looked like a regular
soundboard to me, underneath 80 years of<BR>> dirt, grime, stink bugs, and
neglect. A totally unremarkable piano. 4'10"<BR>> in length,
completely beat up. I'm still not sure what their ad meant by<BR>>
"three sounding boards"<BR><BR>So it's a grand. That's new and pertinent
information. Since people will <BR>call everything under the sun a soundboard,
did it happen to have three <BR>bridges?<BR><BR>Ron
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