<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <html><head><style type="text/css"></style><title>Re: The Mother of all Bellyrails</title></head><body> <div>At 9:38 AM -0800 8/2/03, Delwin D Fandrich wrote:</div> <div><br></div> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#000080">I've been at this rewhatevering business since early in the 1960s. About the time I figure I must have seen most everything, someone like Chickering comes along with this:</font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite> </blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite align="center"><img src="cid:a05100302ba6b1ea9b96a@[61.8.12.11].1.0" alt="Overhead view 1 LR.jpg"></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite> </blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#000080">. . .</font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite> </blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#000080">No structural deficiencies here....</font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite> </blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#000080">Del</font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite> </blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#000080">Delwin D Fandrich<br> Piano Designer & Builder<br> Hoquiam, Washington  USA<br> E.mail: </font> <a href="mailto:pianobuilders@olynet.com"><font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#000080">pianobuilders@olynet.com</font></a></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#000080">Web Site: </font> <a href="http://www.pianobuilders.com"><font face="Comic Sans MS" color="#000080">www.pianobuilders.com</font></a></blockquote> <div><br></div> <div>Thanks for the post Del, its a very interesting piano. It looks to be between 6'0" and 6'6"? Its interesting to see another older scale layout where the designer has had the courage to make the last plain wire E32. Some of the 'modern' designers could benefit by considering such possibilities. The trichord covered tenor section might better have been done as bichords from D#31 down, but nevertheless it is a vast scaling improvement on some of the dreadful 'modern' six foot grands with the lowest plain wire on note B27.</div> <div><br></div> <div>Spurious plate strut resonances would be well under control with this design also. I note also that the low end of the tenor bridge and high end of the bass bridge has been placed equidistant from the perimeter of the board. Some of the 'new breed' wide bodied grands, with their somewhat ordinary crossovers, leave much to be desired in this respect. Will you be rebuilding this piano Del? If so I look forward to hearing your impressions of its sustaining qualities post rebuild.</div> <div><br></div> <div>Regards,</div> <div>Ron O.</div> <x-sigsep><pre>-- </pre></x-sigsep> <div>_______________________<br> <br> OVERS PIANOS - SYDNEY<br> Grand Piano Manufacturers<br> <br> Web: http://overspianos.com.au<br> mailto:info@overspianos.com.au<br> _______________________</div> </body> </html>