<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2668" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: = Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=rol= e_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV> <DIV>   Well then, in this case ,you've got a more recent view tha= n I ,into the more ,shall we say, recent anomalies. </DIV> <DIV>  Dale Erwin</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><= FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size= =2> <DIV> <DIV> </DIV></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV dir=ltr><SPAN class=078490215-24062005><FONT face="Comic Sans M= S" color=#000080 size=3>Ah, yes. Well, they were thicker back before the "Diaphragmatic Soundboard" was invented back in the early 1930s. We've replaced enough boards in pianos made through the 1980s and 1990s to see s= ome of the results of boards this thin combined with compression crowning.</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr><SPAN class=078490215-24062005></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr><SPAN class=078490215-24062005><FONT face="Comic Sans M= S" color=#000080 size=3>Del</FONT></SPAN></DIV></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>