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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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<A title=davistunes@yahoo.com href="mailto:davistunes@yahoo.com">Dave
Davis</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, November 05, 2006 12:52
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Pin
flexing/bending/twisting</DIV>
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<DIV
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">My
wife likes marshmallows charred, so I'm sure the hide glue is an
enhancement. The other outdoor laboratory experiment I did late this
summer during the bridgepin/false-beat debates was to put an old bridge with
pins intact into a hot campfire with bridgepins up. This resulted in the
false beats being eliminated permanently. </DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif">Dave
Davis<BR><BR></DIV>
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face=Arial size=2>Dave,</FONT></DIV>
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face=Arial size=2> Interesting. Did you seat the strings
with the Nossaman Model 500 2Lb. sledge first ?</FONT></DIV>
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face=Arial size=2> Tom
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