<HTML><HEAD> <META charset=UTF-8 http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charse= t=utf-8"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2730.1700" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fffff= f"> <DIV>In a message dated 9/20/2003 8:55:52 PM Pacific Daylight Time, markbols= ius@optusnet.com.au writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue = 2px solid"><FONT face=Arial><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000040= ></FONT><BR><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000040>&n= bsp; Mark writes</FONT><BR>The belly is huge with quite short ribs and a lig= ht soundboard. I can't verify this, but I believe the crown is also quite lo= w. I can't remember if the riobs were fanned _ I don't think so, but I'll ac= cept whatever someone else who's seen might say.</FONT></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000040>    = <FONT size=3>Hi Mark</FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000040 size=3>  &nb= sp;  What does this mean"huge belly but short ribs" >Is that like ba= rbeque ribs from a huge pork belly. Grin . Seriously though with 8 octaves I= imagine a large board but am unclear as to what short ribs. Do you mean the= re height or thickness? By light soundboard you mean thinner than usual?&nbs= p;As a reference point a S&S B board could be 8.5 to 10 mm thick in= the middle.Thanks for the overview.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000040 size=3>   Da= le Erwin</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>