<!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><FONT face=Arial size=2> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><EM>Don Rose wrote:</EM></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><EM>Rumor has it that 121 cm uprights = have equivalent length strings to a 185<BR>cm grand. Is this = true?</EM></FONT></DIV> <DIV><EM></EM> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3>Below is a photo of a 1913 M&H 52-inch (132 cm) = upright back and rim assembly with a faux (but true-to-size) Baldwin M 5' 2" = (156 cm) grand rim clamped so that the grand belly rail overlies the = corresponding upright rim area. In this case you can see that the upright = belly is maybe five centimeters longer than the grand.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3>If you are trying to compare piano sizes, I should = think belly length would generally be a better indicator of piano size rather than = string (speaking) length - that just gets you into that marketing-driven piano = design crapola. <DIV><FONT size=3></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3>So I would estimate that a 121 cm = (48") upright would be similar in size to a 148 cm (4' 10") grand.</FONT></DIV></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT size=3>Terry = Farrell</FONT></DIV> <DIV></FONT></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT><IMG alt="" hspace=0 src="cid:002801c5c5ed$9437c0d0$0201a8c0@FARRELL" align=baseline border=0></DIV></BODY></HTML>