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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Alan wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>World Number 2 = (Old uprights, trash consoles and
spinets, family "heirlooms", beat up Hamilton studios ...) +
(Fallboard names like Gulbransen, Monarch, Howard, Lester, Bob's Piano Company
... ) + (Small towns 2 to 4 hours from any city even large enough to have
piano dealers, small farms and ranches, Appalachia, Mississippi Delta, or in my
case, the Missouri Ozarks ...)<br>
<br>
<font color=navy><span style='color:navy'>***</span></font><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I am also a full-time
resident in World Number 2 which has been a great place to start my career.
Lots of repairs on old pianos and very nice customers. I’ll let my <st1:City
w:st="on">Austin</st1:City> chapter friends deal with the <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Austin</st1:place></st1:City> attitudes for now. Concerning the
keytop replacement that started this whole discussion, I have mailed them off
to be replaced. I would prefer for my first replacement job to be a little
more straightforward and I wanted my customer to get her money’s worth.
Thanks to everyone for your advice and honesty.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Michelle Smith<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Smith Piano Service<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><font
size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy'>Bastrop</span></font></st1:City><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>, <st1:State
w:st="on">Texas</st1:State></span></font></st1:place><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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