<!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 6.00.2900.2722" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; = FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bottomMargin=7 bgColor=#ffffff leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 = rightMargin=7> <DIV> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = BORDER-LEFT: #000000 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> Saturday, August 27, 2005 = 6:53 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Soundboard = Removal</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 = size=2> <DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3>  Ric</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3>  My guess is Mr </FONT><FONT size=3>Bluethner didn't pay that much precise attention to the = amount of crown  especially if he was compression crowning ,which he was. Judging  by the one & only one </FONT></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV dir=ltr>Dale, are you sure Bluthner used compression crowning in = the beginning? I remember reading something about rib crowning in an old = book written by one of the Bluthners.</DIV> <DIV dir=ltr>Some makers did use rib crowning even in the 19th = century, but I have no idea how to find out which.</DIV> <DIV dir=ltr> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr> Calin Tantareanu<BR>----------------------------------------------------<BR>&nb= sp;<A href="http://calin.1L.com">http://calin.1L.com</A><BR>-----------------= -----------------------------------</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>