<!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 6.00.2800.1170" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style">Hi Phil,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style">During the last part of George = Steck's life his obsession was to design a piano that would hold tune almost indefinitely.  He tried a lot of things including  radically = heavy bracing and attaching the plate to the structure every place he thought = it would help.  Too bad he did not live longer.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Bookman Old Style">Jim</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>James Grebe , <BR> Piano = Tuner-Technician, Wood Artisan     <BR>new website <A href="http://www.JamesGrebe.com">WWW.JamesGrebe.com</A><BR></FONT></DIV= > <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = BORDER-LEFT: #000000 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 title=fordpiano@earthlink.net = href="mailto:fordpiano@earthlink.net">Phillip Ford</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=files@ptg.org href="mailto:files@ptg.org">files@ptg.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, August 27, = 2003 9:53 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Mother in Law of All = Cutoff Bars</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>