> I serviced a very interesting 5' 1930? ( I left my atlas on the > desk) Mehlin grand today. > First glance was very typical small grand design. Cantilevered bass > bridge but with a pretty decent backscale length. The real surprise came > from below. > The bass was floated and had a 3" wide serpentine cuttoff . > The ribs were "reverse" tapered . > That is the ends of each rib were around 1" thick at the rim and > tapered to around 5/16 " thick in the middle. I'll bring my camera next > time and pass along some images. Do, please. All the anomalies that's phit to photo. > Really cool design stuff. The overall condition was fair to poor and > I really would have liked to hear this thing out of the box way back when. > Any of youze belly heads worked on one of these? > Tom Driscoll RPT Not worked on them, but I've seen ( I think I remember it being a Mehlin) one with the steeply graded soundboard, about 4" lower in the tail, with the "drain" cutout in the tail curve outside rib #1. Ron N
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