<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1476" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>David I. said: "<FONT face="Times New = Roman" size=3>Why don't we ask the List if anyone has had a plate crack during=<BR> a pitch raise.   I've been working on = pianos for 30 years and it=<BR> has never happened to me"   = <BR>David, et al,</FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" = size=3>I know of only one incident and it didn't happen to me. The short version is: someone = had loosened a nose bolt nut on an olde European Grand. The tech, that this = happened to, is highly regarded throughout the industry. It took us a while to = figure out why the plate broke. Once the reason was figured, the plate was welded = and all is well.</FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" = size=3>Best Regards,</FONT></DIV></FONT> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Joe Garrett, R.P.T.<BR>Captain, Tool Police<BR>Squares R I</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>