<HTML>In a message dated 12/21/2002 7:44:42 AM Pacific Standard Time, RNossaman@cox.net writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Subj: M&H B Date: 12/21/2002 7:44:42 AM Pacific Standard Time From: <A HREF="mailto:RNossaman@cox.net">RNossaman@cox.net</A> Reply-to: <A HREF="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> To: <A HREF="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> Sent from the Internet      Ron</BLOCKQUOTE>         The Mason B is 5 ft 4 " and has eleven mono-chords and I think 26 bass notes so its not exactly an A clone but not a bad piano either. Has a big sound for its size. <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px"> I tuned a Mason &Hamlin B the other day - do it every three or four years whether it needs it or not. Nearly as I can remember (an inconclusive conditional at best), this is the only M&H B I've ever seen. It looks like an A case, but the tenor bridge doesn't have the shepherds crook at the low end, and there are only two hitch loops through the tenor and treble. Were these just simplified versions of the old "A"s with plate and bridge modifications, or something entirely different? I didn't get much chance to look it over with the Doberman helping as closely as possible. Ron N </BLOCKQUOTE> </HTML>