Actually, I've tuned many "spinetized" pianos here in North Central Ohio. I believe most of them were done by a local technician name Earl Harden during the war years - couldn't get new ones to sell so he took older ones and made them look like newer smaller pianos (he was also a dealer). Del Gittinger, RPT Registered Piano Technician of the Piano Technicians Guild delgit@acc-net.com Marion, Ohio
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