<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> <DIV>In a message dated 10/23/2003 11:04:50 AM Pacific Daylight Time, michae= l@gambles.fsnet.co.uk writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue = 2px solid"> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello Dale</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have to admit to starting this thread som= etime back when I posed the query: I have found that the Tone Bell (Steinway= 's own term) is only present in those grands which have a Sos-ped. I have tu= ned many S&S which have no Sos-ped and none of them have a Tone-bell. Do= es the Tone-bell have any tonal effect or is it in some way a contributing f= actor in the use of a Sos-ped? Well, that was the gist of it all. It has spa= rked off a lot of interesting trivia hasn't it!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Regards</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Michael </FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000040 size=3><STRONG>  = Yes Michael it has & you did but, I made mention in one of the post that= all our NY S&S grands have sostento pedals so there isn't any correlati= on on the U.S. models. So it has nothing to do with the bell ,sos. or size. = Trivia yes.</STRONG></FONT></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000040 size=3>  = Regards--Dale</FONT></STRONG></DIV></BODY></HTML>