<HTML>In a message dated 9/14/2002 1:12:42 AM Pacific Daylight Time, Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">         List</BLOCKQUOTE>      Well I was wondering if support is the issue why not add a short stiff beam and another nose bolt. It seams like the same idea would be accomplished with less fuss.       Dale Erwin <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px"> To be sure Del, I suppose I should have included that. I just thought the patents claim was interesting. It makes perfect sense that it functions as a mass coupler as well. But are you saying then that the plate is not actually stressed upwards by the string pressure as the claim makes below ? RicB Delwin D Fandrich wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">The question was not what the original patent claimed it was for, nor was the question what the company has claimed it was for over the years (two or three different things right there). The question was, as I understood it, what does it actually do. Del   <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">----- Original Message ----- From: <A HREF="mailto:Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no">Richard Brekne</A> To: <A HREF="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">PTG</A> Sent: September 13, 2002 1:50 PM Subject: The Steinway Bell Patent <IMG SRC="cid:X.MA340537544@aol.com" ID="MA340537544" WIDTH="364" HEIGHT="389" BORDER="0"> -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. UiB, Bergen, Norway <A HREF="mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no">mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no</A> <A HREF="http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html">http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html</A> </BLOCKQUOTE> </BLOCKQUOTE> </BLOCKQUOTE> </HTML>