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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=navy size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: navy">"Alright, you guys are getting me paranoid
now….I’ve severely duct-taped a piece of cardboard over the hitch-pins and
rear string segments of my poor M and sent out warnings to all involved. In the
28 years I’ve been in this business I’ve never seen a bass string go ballistic
but I believe you all…"</SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: navy">About the same number of years for me,
Eric, and never had that experience, either. I even went through a brief
phase where I cut the bass strings "south" of the agraffe under full tension --
and still never observed a string fly from the piano. (I recall them
flipping about and tearing up damper felt and such, but otherwise nothing
terribly airborne.)</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=navy size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: navy">One great thing about a list like this is
that you have access to hundreds (or thousands?:-) of culmulative years of
experience, which can include events, repairs, problems, etc., which one has
personally never encountered.</SPAN></FONT></P>
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