<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; = -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><BR></DIV><DIV>By the way, = I just bumped into the Tuba professor. His is a Mahaffey (forgive my = spelling if this isn't correct) impact hammer. He seemed to be quite = knowledgeable about the history of the tool. He said Mahaffey never = intended the tool for fine tuning. It was designed specifically to = lessen fatigue during rough pitch raising.</DIV><DIV><BR = class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT = class="Apple-style-span" color="#0F00DD" face="Arial" = size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: = 10px;"><B>*&^%*()(%$%# thing won't work! Must be the %^*&X@# = hammer's fault! </B></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR = class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Perhaps this = isn't so far off base after all.... :-)</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: = 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR = class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Ya'll have a = good weekend!</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Jeff</DIV></BODY></HTML>=