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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> September 09, 2003 10:16 =
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Crowned Ribs on
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color=#000040 size=2 FAMILY="SERIF">In a message dated 9/9/2003 =
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color=#000000 size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF">Subj: <B>Crowned Ribs =
on M&H?
</B><BR>Date: 9/9/2003 3:09:53 PM Pacific Daylight Time<BR>From: <A
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<DIV>John<BR> I =
was at
Mason & Hamlin 3 years ago and recieved a tour from Kirk Burgett. =
I won't
swear to it but I believe he spoke about the ribs having several =
different
radii. I saw the same racks but didn't stop to look specifically at =
the ribs
or the crown alleged. I haven't torn down any Mason yet with crowned =
ribs
either but then again it seems I'm the only one who has seen a half =
dozen
reverse crown executions in various makes. Odd thing are out so there =
maybe
Del stumbled on the only two crowned rib experiments these companys =
ever
produced.<BR> Dale</FONT></FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
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color=#000080 size=3>That would be a bit too much of a coincidence.
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color=#000080 size=3>It's been a while and, in retrospect, the =
AA could
have been called either way. I didn't measure anything and they could =
have
simply been warped or bent into a mild curve over the ages. I didn't =
really
think about them all that much, I just assumed they had originally been =
crowned
and I could well have assumed wrong. </FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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color=#000080 size=3>The BB ribs, however, were
crowned.</FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080>We don't see all that =
many M&H
pianos up here so, with the exception of the one BB, I'll take John's =
word for
M&H ribs generally being flat.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#000080>Del</FONT></DIV>
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