puzzler (bellyrail angle)

[Phillip L Ford]

Did it have anything to do with the bellyrail having to point towards Mecca?

Phil
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Phillip Ford
Piano Service & Restoration
1777 Yosemite Ave - 215
San Francisco, CA  94124

>Anyway, use the opportunity to challenge the grey cells. Why angle the 
>bellyrail? Clue: The reason for this little habit goes back a couple of 
>centuries, and ceased to apply early in the 19th Century. [can't expect 
>the piano industry to have caught up yet though]
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>Stephen
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