<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" background="cid:part1.39E22C14.A2C6576F@grieg.uib.no"> Briano I dont know about others but I cant read your messages because of all these piano keys... grin.. nice touch but many browsers dont like such things... How ya doing anyways... ? <p>Brian Lawson wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE><style>BODY { BACKGROUND-POSITION: left top; BACKGROUND-REPEAT: repeat-y; COLOR: #000080; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; MARGIN-LEFT: 70px } </style> Hi, for those of you who stateside, what distinguishs a New York S&S from a Hamburg? There is a model O in the shop here and on the plate it has Reg US patent and STEINWAY below the top treble pins, yet its serial# 288705 dates it at 1936 but Piece says the model O was discontinued in 1923 in the US.  <br>Brian Lawson, RPT <br>Johannesburg, South Africa  </blockquote> <p>-- <br>Richard Brekne <br>RPT, N.P.T.F. <br>Bergen, Norway <br>  </body> </html>