<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 5.50.4134.600" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT color=#000080></FONT> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = BORDER-LEFT: #000080 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: = black"><B>From:</B> <A title=Erwinspiano@AOL.COM href="mailto:Erwinspiano@AOL.COM">Erwinspiano@AOL.COM</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A = title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> March 05, 2002 6:12 = AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Sohmer </DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px = solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px" TYPE="CITE"><FONT lang=0 style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" = face=Arial color=#000000 size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF">Has anybody had = experience with a Sohmer piano with agraffes on the long bridge? </FONT><FONT lang=0 = style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" face=Arial color=#000000 = size=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF"><BR></FONT><FONT lang=0 = style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2 = FAMILY="SANSSERIF">Thankyou,</FONT><FONT lang=0 style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" face=Arial = color=#000000 size=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF"><BR></FONT><FONT lang=0 = style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2 = FAMILY="SANSSERIF">Owen</FONT><FONT lang=0 style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" face=Arial color=#000000 = size=3 FAMILY="SANSSERIF"><BR></BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV>     Owen<BR>    Yes I have = and they went all the way up. I wrote of this before but this piano had = agraffes all the way up and the board was a reverse crown design. Freak design but = awesome sound. A difficult on to string></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans" color=#000080></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans" color=#000080>Hmmmm....</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans" color=#000080></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans" color=#000080>Are you sure those were = reverse crown by design? Those I've done had positive crown. And extremely high = scale tensions -- highest I've ever measured. Around 62,000 lbs (28,000 kgf +) = or better as I recall. Took some doing to bring it down and retain the = agraffe design (as per the customers request).</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans" color=#000080></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans" color=#000080>Del</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans" color=#000080></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans" = color=#000080></FONT></FONT></FONT><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT lang=0 style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: = #ffffff" face="Times New Roman Greek" color=#000000 size=3 FAMILY="SERIF"><BR> </DIV></FONT></FONT></BODY></HTML>