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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
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> September 17, 2002 7:36 =
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: The Steinway Bell
Patent</DIV>
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face="Times New Roman"
size=2 FAMILY="SERIF">In a message dated 9/16/2002 8:48:25 PM =
Pacific Daylight
Time, <A =
href="mailto:pianobuilders@olynet.com">pianobuilders@olynet.com</A>
writes:<BR><BR></FONT><FONT lang=0 style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: =
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FAMILY="SERIF">Well, I think so.
It does seem to help sustain enough to warrant the extra work. And =
we leave
the bell and bolt in--we don't remove it. Their influence doesn't
overlap--they do different things. Though the brace could, I =
suppose, be
place to receive the bell bolt. I prefer keeping the added brace =
down a
bit.</FONT><FONT lang=0 style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"
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FAMILY="SERIF">Del</FONT><FONT
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<DIV> Do you =
mean
keeping the size of the brace
down?<BR>
Dale</FONT></FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000080>No, down further in the scale. I want the =
brace to butt
up against the belly rail approximately half way between the so-called =
(and
lamentably mis-named) "tone-collector" and the treble end. I don't =
have a D
in the shop just now so I can't be more specific--I'd have to look at
one.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000080>Del</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>