In a message dated 6/30/1999 9:28:24 PM, A440A@AOL.COM writes: << Make up a good rationale for themt and stick to it! Regards, Ed Foote >> Lance; Although I can't agree with Ed to a "T".......cause he has an extra T in there :-)........I absolutely agree with everything else. The probable causes could be, cleaning attempts, restringing or string replacement damage, dry spilled coke/rum damage. The best answer 'might' be to say "Sir, or Madam, because of the depth of these scratches it is not practical to remove them completely as it would also remove so much of that one small area of the sounboard so as to possibly alter the sound/stability." Course, it also is probably true....and that helps :-) Jim Bryant (FL)
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