This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Re: The Mother of all BellyrailsLooks very familiar to me, with all that = extra iron on the plate extending under the strings. My first piano was = a Chickering built like that, cost me $35 in 1955. I don't remember the = model number nor the length (6 feet?) but if I were a betting man... I = was a college student and learning tuning on the side. Bought it to fix = up and sell. It never sold, so I gave it to my church. Glad to hear from you that the design had so much positive going for it. = I was disappointed in the primitive action: no repetition levers and = the jack flanges mounted directly on the keys. One-piece ivories. = Glued-in pin block which suffered from my attempt to ream out the plate = holes for 4/0 tuning pins. =20 Bill Maxim, RPT Columbia, SC ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/77/63/e6/13/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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