<font color='navy' size='2' face='Comic Sans MS, sans-serif'> <div id="AOLMsgPart_2_511dd43a-8565-4e1c-82d7-f33c7dcdea8c"> <font face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif"><br> <br> <div style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: arial, helvetica; clear: both;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><b><font size="1"></font></b></span><tt><tt><br>  <br>   <font size="2"></font></tt></tt><br> <br> </div> <br> <font size="1"><br> </font> <div><font size="1"><br> </font> <div id="AOLMsgPart_2_708cfa90-641b-44e5-885b-c0fa0419216a"> <font face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif"><font size="1"><font face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', sans-serif;"> Colleagues</font> </font> <div><font size="1"><font face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif"> Every now and then we get to restore a piano for venerable civic group and historic occasions. In this case , the Chico womens club is both. They are celebrating there 100th anniverserary with the restoration of there 1911 Steinway B and with a silent film festival. The piano will be showcased by the pianist who specializes in the old silent movie theater piano music.</font><font face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial, helvetica;"></font> </font> <div style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', sans-serif;"><font face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif" size="1">The Steinway is 2 years older than the womens club.It was pretty much a train wreck. The lid had been damaged in a fire at the club eons ago, and then re-veneered badly. So, new lid.</font></div> <div style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', sans-serif;"><font face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif" size="1"> Everything else in similar condition. New set of legs as well. </font></div> <div style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', sans-serif;"><font face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif" size="1"><br> </font></div> <div style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', sans-serif;"><font face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif" size="1"> The details and pictures I sent are posted on there included web site. I thought this was quite creative of them.</font></div> <font color="#000000" size="1"><a target="_blank" href="http://chicowomensclub.wix.com/chicowomensclub" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; cursor: pointer; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">http://chicowomensclub.wix.com/chicowomensclub</a> </font> <div style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', sans-serif;"><font face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif" size="1"><br> </font></div> <div style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', sans-serif;"><font face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif" size="1">  If interested in the rebuilding details read on.... if not....please skip.</font></div> <div style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', sans-serif;"><font face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif" size="1"> The piano has the older 14 rib scale which I prefer to the 13 rib model. We added a straight cut-off bar,treble belly brace, removed the ring bridge connector/tone killer. Built a rib crowned board with the usual mad in house Sitka spruce panel. I had some really beautiful tight grain Grown in Calif. sugar pine ribs. (20grains per inch)....really hard to find. Added double wrapped bass mono-chords and 3 unisons of Bi-chords on the first 3 notes of the tenor section.</font></div> <div style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', sans-serif;"><font size="1"><font face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">A set of Ronsen Weickert felt hammers (n</font>o juice or needles required) attached to a custom balanced action resulted in a piano that speaks very, very well, with big robust voice with clarity and presence. 5.5 action ratio. All in all all the Erwins are very pleased with this outcome.</font></div> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica;"><font face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif" size="1"><br> </font></div> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica;"><font face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif" size="1"> We deliver it Friday night to the womens club the 8th for the opening silent films event. Saturday is a champagne brunch and some kind of a multimedia interview of the Erwin crew. HEy free publicity is alwasy welcome. Its all good & we get hear our newest makeover in concert so to speak, laughing all the while at  Laurel & Hardy films and Charlie Chaplin films. Life is good.</font></div> <div style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica;"><font color="#000080" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif"><font size="1"> Dale</font></font></div> <div style="font-size: small; color: navy; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', sans-serif;"><font color="#000080" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif"> </font></div> <div style="font-size: small; color: navy; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', sans-serif;"> <div style="font-size: 10pt; 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 R.P.T.<br> <font color="green">Erwin's Piano Restoration Inc.</font><br> </font></font></font></b></font><font color="darkgreen"><span style="font-style: italic;"><b><font size="1"><font size="1" color="black"><font color="blueviolet"><font color="black"><font color="black" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">Mason & Hamlin</font><font face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">/Steinway/</font><font color="black" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">U.S. pianos</font><font face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif"><br> </font></font></font></font><font size="1" color="cornflowerblue" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif"><a href="http://www.Erwinspiano.com" target="_blank">www.Erwinspiano.com</a></font><font size="1"><br> </font><font size="1" color="crimson" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">Phone: 209-577-8397</font></font></b></span></font></div> </div> <div style="font-size: 10pt; color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica;"> <div id="AOLMsgPart_2_75f7d92d-fd3e-4459-8d4d-4b740450785b"><font color="navy" size="2" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif"> <div style="font-family:arial,helvetica;font-size:10pt;color:black"><br> <br> <div id="AOLMsgPart_0_968cd7fb-a8fe-4130-9445-d0aab438e01c" style="margin: 0px;font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif;font-size: 12px;color: #000;background-color: #fff;"> <pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt> </tt></pre> </div> <div id="AOLMsgPart_2_968cd7fb-a8fe-4130-9445-d0aab438e01c" style="margin: 0px;font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif;font-size: 12px;color: #000;background-color: #fff;"> <pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt> </tt></pre> </div> <div id="AOLMsgPart_4_968cd7fb-a8fe-4130-9445-d0aab438e01c" style="margin: 0px;font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif;font-size: 12px;color: #000;background-color: #fff;"> <pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt> </tt></pre> </div> <div id="AOLMsgPart_6_968cd7fb-a8fe-4130-9445-d0aab438e01c" style="margin: 0px;font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif;font-size: 12px;color: #000;background-color: #fff;"> <pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt> Sent from my iPhone </tt></pre> </div> <br> </div> </font> </div> <br> </div> </div> </font> </div>  <br> </div> </font> </div>  </font>