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Marcel,</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I'm =
getting valuable comments from both lists.</DIV><DIV><BR =
class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>On Feb 23, 2006, at 2:12 =
PM, Marcel Carey wrote:</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin:=
0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" =
style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Both will need new casters, the one =
with damaged bass dampers will need</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px =
0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: =
12.0px Helvetica">new bass strings (they might sound OK now, but trust =
me DAMHIK). <BR></FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR =
class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I gather that regardless of =
how the bass strings fared down at the hitchpins, those with wet dampers =
pressing against them will have water seeping past the windings and into =
the core wire. Which will rust and pop.</DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE =
type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT =
face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px =
Helvetica">They </FONT><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" =
style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">eventually won't perform as well as =
undamaged pianos. You probably will</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px =
0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: =
12.0px Helvetica">see pedal problems (screws coming out of the bottom), =
maybe key</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT =
face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">warping?? =
<BR></FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR =
class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I didn't see any twisting a =
day later. What I can check out is how water flows on a case panel such =
as the hinged top lid. One would expect it to find its way between the =
edges joined by the hinges. (I'm gessing that's how the dampers got =
it.) </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>But =
when it runs forward to the outward edge, then down over that edge and =
arrives 3/4" later at the bottom edge of that edge, does it then obey =
gravity and drip straight downwards, or follow some other rule of =
surface attraction and wander back in along the underside of the =
panel?</DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px =
0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: =
12.0px Helvetica">Did the keys get wet? If they did, problems will =
come.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>On the list of long-term =
concerns</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV> =
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