<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> 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. <p>But are you saying then that the plate is not actually stressed upwards by the string pressure as the claim makes below ? <p>RicB <p>Delwin D Fandrich wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE><style></style> 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. <font color="#000080">Del</font> <br><font color="#000080"></font>  <blockquote dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000080 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <div style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message -----</div> <div style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><b>From:</b> <a href="mailto:Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no" title="Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no">Richard Brekne</a></div> <div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org" title="pianotech@ptg.org">PTG</a></div> <div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>Sent:</b> September 13, 2002 1:50 PM</div> <div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>Subject:</b> The Steinway Bell Patent</div>  <img SRC="cid:part1.3D82EF3C.B4C73486@grieg.uib.no" height=389 width=364> <p>-- <br>Richard Brekne <br>RPT, N.P.T.F. <br>UiB, Bergen, Norway <br><a href="mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no">mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no</a> <br><a href="http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html">http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html</a> <br> </blockquote> </blockquote> <br>  <br>  <p>-- <br>Richard Brekne <br>RPT, N.P.T.F. <br>UiB, Bergen, Norway <br><A HREF="mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no">mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no</A> <br><A HREF="http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html">http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html</A> <br>  </body> </html>