"........Customer has 90-year-old Chickering upright, really worn out. BUT customer has sentimental attachment to it. ..........." Yes, there has been many a time I have informed a customer that their piano is only worth spending money on for sentimental reasons or semi-mental reasons. Apart from this, many technicians here are very dubious about using oversize pins on a "pre-war" piano for fear of cracking the pinblock. It is apparently quite a common occurrence. Regards Alan Forsyth Edinburgh
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