At 19:27 -0400 11/9/07, Jon Page wrote: >Easy solution: > Don't work on uprights :-) I've made that vow often enough, because I'm convinced there's more work in rebuilding an upright than a grand, but at least the uprights I have are fine instruments and worth working on -- 4 Lipps, 2 Rittmüllers, 2 Brinsmeads, a Gotha Steck and a Kirkman ( which was two Kirkmen!), not to mention a Steinway Vertegrand which I wish would just evaporate and leave no trace. I choose which pianos I work on and very rarely take in customers' uprights. JD
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