<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv=content-type> <META name=GENERATOR content="MSHTML 8.00.6001.19328"> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff text=#000000> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>I did have some pics of a small 1930's Mehlin grand but lost them with a machine crash.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial> Anyway , floating bass and ribs that are full thickness at the rim and taper to about 3/8" in the middle. This piano is in poor shape so a judgement on the success of these designs was  clouded but it's interesting to see none the less. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Chickering , Mehlin and a few others had true R and D it seems.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Tom D.</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> </BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>