<!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 6.00.2900.2523" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#d8d0c8> <DIV><FONT size=2>Saw this for the first time yesterday, on a = 20-year-old Asian "Chickering" console.  The bottom two notes of the treble bridge = were bichords wound with the finest copper, almost thread-sized; the next two = notes were plain steel bichords.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>It sounded bad, too.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>--Cy Shuster--</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Bluefield, WV</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></BODY></HTML>