<!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 6.00.2900.2668" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Below is a picture of the treble end of = the spinet grand I posted on. Seems to me this would be about as bad as things = could get from a designer's viewpoint. How in the world to make the soundboard = flexible enough for the bass, yet stiff enough for the high treble. The bass REEEEAAAALLLLY suffers on this piano - although, maybe not much more = than your average Winter spinet (but of course, that's not saying = much).</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Incidentally, the bass bridge is one = that I epoxied back together several years ago (split wide open along the row = of forward bridge pins) - it seems to be holding up quite well.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Terry Farrell</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><IMG alt="" hspace=0 src="cid:006b01c588aa$430c3ae0$0201a8c0@youro0kwkw9jwc" = align=baseline border=0></DIV></BODY></HTML>