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<DIV>Patrick, if you go to our website at <A href="http://www.motspheres.com/RestorationProcess/index.html">http://www.motspheres.com/RestorationProcess/index.html</A>, you'll see exactly what you would have had the rebuilder do, and what the repair would entail. This was (still is, I hope) a Bechstein with much the same problems you are describing.</DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=2>IF YOU WANT TO KNOW THE TRUTH, STOP HAVING OPINIONS!</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV>In a message dated 01/13/07 15:19:47 Central Standard Time, jpdraine@gmail.com writes:</DIV>
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This morning I went out to tune a Steinway A, recently purchased <BR>several months ago at a major S&S dealership's "major concert venue <BR>special sales event". While originally manufactured in 1908, It had <BR>recently been fully rebuilt (new soundboard etc.). Anyway, I found a <BR>few hairline cracks in the lid as I was tuning it, and then as I was <BR>under the piano, starting to install a Dampp-Chaser system, I noticed <BR>a crack in one of the beams, and gaps/cracks in the rim. As I was just <BR>about to put some screws to secure the fill tube in the immediate <BR>vicinity of said cracks I decided to retreat from the installation, <BR>and inform the prevously blissful customer of my findings. <BR>I really don't know what level of implied or spelled out warranty the <BR>customer may have in this situation. It's certainly possible that <BR>these gaps & cracks will be/are stable, but I prefer to be cautious <BR>rather than blindly optimistic. The customer isn't a panicky type; <BR>she's on good terms with the sales person & I helped her compose an <BR>e-mail to the sales person informing the dealer of the situation. <BR>It seems to me an EZ but entirely stable repair would be for the <BR>dealer to take it back to the shop, flip the piano over, and fill the <BR>rim & beam cracks with low viscosity epoxy. I suppose a low viscosity <BR>glue can fix the cracks in the lid, too, followed by a couple more <BR>coats of ebony lacquer. <BR>Question to the rebuilder/remanufacturers/dealers out there: wouldn't <BR>you address these issues even if you're selling it as a used (at said <BR>concert & teaching complex) rebuilt piano? <BR>Put another way, am I being too "sensitive" in expecting some effort <BR>in filling the gaps in the rim in a structurally sound manner? <BR>Patrick Draine <BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
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