<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV></DIV><DIV>On Mar 22, 2006, at 10:39 AM, Barbara Richmond wrote:</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">Thanks to everyone, Mark & Joe, for the information you've passed on to me. With all the information and the practicing I've done, I feel like I can go in and find out what the heck is happening with this piano.</SPAN></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><DIV><DIV>Here's an idea I remember from 12(?) years ago but never tried. Guitar frets flatten with wear, and need to be restored to a small radius profile. (Same thing with capo bars.) It seems as though is would take the guess work out of forming a profile by hand when he plate is still in the piano and you can only view the surface being work, with a mirror. Anybody have any experience with these? Quite likely guitar frets are much softer than plate iron, but <FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Stewart-MacDonald has diamond fret dressers.</FONT></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Fretting_supplies/Fretting_tools:_Fret_dressing,_polishing/Three-in-one_Fret_File.html">http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Fretting_supplies/Fretting_tools:_Fret_dressing,_polishing/Three-in-one_Fret_File.html</A></DIV></DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Bill Ballard RPT</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">NH Chapter, P.T.G.</DIV><DIV><A href="mailto:wbps@vermontel.net">wbps@vermontel.net</A></DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#FC0008" face="Arial" size="4"></FONT><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV></BODY></HTML>