<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Happy Thanksgiving, Everyone!<div><br><div>Thank you Joe, Norman,Jack, Dave and Thumpe.</div><div><br></div><div>You were right, it's a 1914 reproducer (but the reproducer has been replaced with a <i>Piano Disc</i> system.)  The owner says the finish is olive wood(?)  This is the same owner that has the bar-less Broadwood grand. I'm used to tuning pianos of this vintage at A435. I didn't think the frames were up to the resultant tension when tuned around A440.  The owner would like them tuned to A440 for the <i>Piano Disc</i> system background music will be in tune.  He's installed the PD system on the Broadwood grand I mentioned and 2 Broadwood cottage uprights (yes, David, with overdampers) and I've resisted tuning all these instruments at anything more than A435.  </div><div><br></div><div>Am I wrong?  Is there no danger?</div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-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: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div>Laura Olsen,RPT</div><div>847-277-0778</div><div><a href="http://www.ajoyfulsoundinc.com">www.ajoyfulsoundinc.com</a></div><div><br></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div> <br><div><div>On Nov 21, 2012, at 9:27 PM, <a href="mailto:JWyatt1492@aol.com">JWyatt1492@aol.com</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"> <meta content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <div style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" id="role_body" bottommargin="7" leftmargin="7" rightmargin="7" topmargin="7"><font id="role_document" color="#000000" size="2" face="Arial"> <div>Hello Laura,</div> <div> </div> <div>     It was called  " Coffin Corner"  Chickering used this style </div> <div>more than anyone else.   Their   Scale 109  A-B-C were very </div> <div>popular.  Later they left this style, rounded off the corner and</div> <div>changed the scale number the  116. These pianos were very</div> <div>large and wide.</div> <div> </div> <div>   Both the Fisher and Steck built similar  styles to this Knabe.</div> <div> Most were players but not all.</div> <div> </div> <div>   Jack  </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> <div>In a message dated 11/21/2012 11:57:45 A.M. Central Standard Time, <a href="mailto:ajoyfulsound@gmail.com">ajoyfulsound@gmail.com</a> writes:</div> <blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color="#000000" size="2" face="Arial">So, was this called a "coffin tail"?<br><br>I' guessing I shouldn't to this to A440. Can't find a serial number...yet. Art case 304 written on the plate. <br><br><br><span><photo.JPG></span></font></blockquote></div></font></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>