<!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 6.00.2800.1106" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><STRONG>Hello Robin H and Ron O,</STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG></STRONG> </DIV> <DIV><STRONG>Thanks for all that juicy information you supplied. Seems = that this Steinway has turned out to be sneaky in more ways than = one.</STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG></STRONG> </DIV> <DIV><STRONG>The piano is in fact round tailed and measures 6' from outer rim to edge of keyboard, slightly longer if measured with the = top down.</STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG></STRONG> </DIV> <DIV><STRONG>I must say that I was impressed with the sound and the = extreme power of this instrument when I played it, even though it was over a = century old and with the original soundboard albeit with zero downbearing and a = compression crack.</STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG></STRONG> </DIV> <DIV><STRONG>One keeps reading about the back-scale. What ratio of = back-scale to speaking length makes for a good back-scale design?</STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG></STRONG> </DIV> <DIV><STRONG></STRONG> </DIV> <DIV><STRONG>Regards</STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG>Alan Forsyth</STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT size=4></FONT></STRONG> </DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT size=4></FONT></STRONG> </DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT size=4></FONT></STRONG> </DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT size=4>----- Original Message ----- = </FONT></STRONG> <DIV><STRONG><FONT size=4>From: "Robin Hufford" <</FONT></STRONG><A = href="mailto:hufford1@airmail.net"><STRONG><FONT size=4>hufford1@airmail.net</FONT></STRONG></A><STRONG><FONT size=4>></FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT size=4>To: "Pianotech" <</FONT></STRONG><A href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org"><STRONG><FONT size=4>pianotech@ptg.org</FONT></STRONG></A><STRONG><FONT size=4>></FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT size=4>Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 3:30 AM</FONT></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT size=4>Subject: Re: Sneaky Steinway</FONT></STRONG></DIV></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><BR><FONT size=4></FONT></STRONG></DIV><STRONG><FONT = size=4>> Ron and Alan,<BR>>  I think the piano described by Alan is = actually an A Steinway and not<BR>> and O. </FONT></STRONG> </BODY></HTML>