> THIS MESSAGE IS IN MIME FORMAT. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Hello! I was called out once to evaluate a grand that hand been brought out here from back East, and was told that the piano had spent a winter in an unheated building. The wood in the action all had an ugly gray surface, and was in need of action rebuilding. But the worst was yet to come. The main beams when viewed from the bottom had major splits running from one end to the other. I had called out another tuner to help me evaluate the instrument, and he said he had seen this before. What apparently happens is that the moisture in the wood freezes in extreme cold, expands in the wood, and splits the beam as if you had driven a splitting wedge in it. The piano was a total write-off. Pretty sad but graphic demonstration of what an extreme climate can do to a piano. Patrick Poulson, RPT ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/bb/a7/da/77/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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