<!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 6.00.2800.1479" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Friday, I had the dubious honor of = "tuning" a 1939 "Musette". Sheesh! It was parallel stung w/a single bridge/giant hockey = stick, (you could hit the puck from anywhere on the ice!). More bi-chord wound = stings than I wanted to count! Harmonics----nothing matched! Real fun, to say = the least. The poor owner had bought it at a "University Sale", for $2,000! = (Gawd, I hate those sales!...even more now!) The odd thing was that the piano was = constructed very well. Nice Ivory, action was nice, throughout. Played = nice, just sounded like crap! The whole thing closed up like a square grand. I = hope this was the only one ever made, so that none of you have to try and = work on anything like it. BTW, it had a grand lyre, w/only two functioning = pedals, (the middle rod was attached to a spring on the underside of the keybed. = Lovely! :-(</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I usually relish working on the weird, = but not this one!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Regards,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Joe Garrett, R.P.T.<BR>Captain, Tool Police<BR>Squares R I</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>