<!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 content="MSHTML 5.00.2314.1000" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT size=2>Now that's interesting!  </FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>I don't know that it's such a terrible concept, but = it might seem that a curved bridge could at least make the design of the action = and perhaps the case quite a bit easier... but then we'd probably end up a = lot closer to the modern piano shape...  </FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Fascinating.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Brian T.</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: = 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"> <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE="CITE"><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=-1><A = href="http://www.musikmuseet.se/samlingar/banan.html">http://www.musikm= useet.se/samlingar/banan.html</A></FONT></FONT>  </BLOCKQUOTE><= /BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>