A small modern square, downstriking?

[Richard Moody]

Thank you Jack,
    Are the ones you have "downstrikers"?  The one I saw was so unusual I
really want to photograph it.  I will send you a copy of it when I do.   Are
you comming out with another book?   Please let us know.    ---ric

----- Original Message -----
From: <JWyatt1492@AOL.COM>
To: <pianotech@ptg.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 13, 2000 3:32 PM
Subject: Re: A small modern square, downstriking?


> Hello Richard!
>
>   This sounds like a piano made by the "Lester Co".
> for the Pratt Reed Co. If so it will be 39in. wide  241/4
>  deep.  It will be a 64 note with 19 bass strings
> all single and the rest bi-cord.  The first 11 bi-cords
> being wraped in the center section.  I think this
> piano came out in 1945. I have two of these one
> was made in Nov. of 1947. ser. # 889.  It,s real
> name is   Spinet "64".
>
> Hope this helps,
> Jack Wyatt