<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=windows-1252"> <META content="MSHTML 5.50.4134.600" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>----- Original Message ----- </FONT> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>From: "Paul E. Dempsey" <</FONT><A href="mailto:dempsey@Marshall.edu"><FONT face=Arial color=#000000>dempsey@Marshall.edu</FONT></A><FONT = face=Arial>></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>To: "Pianotech" <</FONT><A href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org"><FONT face=Arial color=#000000>pianotech@ptg.org</FONT></A><FONT = face=Arial>></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Sent: February 05, 2003 5:50 AM</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>Subject: Re: D hammers</FONT></DIV></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><BR></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>> Ron,<BR>> <BR>> Can you share some = details regarding this brace you "routinely" install <BR>> during soundboard replacement?<BR>> <BR>> Thanks<BR>> <BR></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080>Paul,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080>See the photo below. = The brace between the inside treble curve and the belly rail has been added to = stiffen the belly rail. We add this brace as a part of our remanufacturing process. = And we usually add the added brace between the #1 bellybrace and the straight, = bass side, of the rim (just under the terminus of the also added soundboard = cutoff bar).</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080>These braces are = installed in a similar fashion to the originals and are visually identical, i.e., they = look original.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080>Del</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080></FONT> </DIV> <DIV align=center><IMG height=303 alt="" hspace=0 src="cid:003d01c2cd41$383d3960$0100007f@delsmachine" width=516 = align=baseline border=0></DIV></BODY></HTML>