<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" = http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2614.3500" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: = 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px"> <DIV dir=ltr><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=360523008-03012002>Hello Del,</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=360523008-03012002></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=360523008-03012002>beside the friction issue, protrect the = strings from the moist that the wood can render.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=360523008-03012002></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=360523008-03012002>?</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=360523008-03012002></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=360523008-03012002>Happy New year</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=360523008-03012002></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=360523008-03012002>Isaac OLEG</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=360523008-03012002></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2>Most of the time we still graphite = bridges as a matter of customer preference. On our own pianos we do not. I fail to = see the point of it.</FONT></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr><FONT = size=2>Del</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>