<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:st1="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium)"> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PostalCode"/> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="State"/> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="City"/> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceName"/> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceType"/> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"/> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PersonName"/>  <style>  </style> </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=blue> <div class=Section1> Hi Steve,<o:p></o:p> “I may be tempted to take a few shots from the hypo oiler thing.”  That’s the point.  Take enough vodka and you won’t care...hammers, what hammers?!  And this from a “teetotaler!”<o:p></o:p> Joy!<o:p></o:p> Elwood<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> <div> <st1:PersonName w:st="on">Elwood Doss</st1:PersonName>, Jr., M.M.E., RPT<o:p></o:p> Piano Technician/Technical Director<o:p></o:p> Department of Music<o:p></o:p> 145 Fine Arts Building<o:p></o:p> The <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Tennessee</st1:PlaceName></st1:place> at Martin<o:p></o:p> <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Martin</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">TN</st1:State>  <st1:PostalCode w:st="on">38238</st1:PostalCode></st1:place><o:p></o:p> 731/881-1852<o:p></o:p> FAX: 731/881-7415<o:p></o:p> HOME: 731/587-5700<o:p></o:p> </div> <div> <div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'> <hr size=2 width="100%" align=center tabindex=-1> </div> From: Steve Blasyak [mailto:atuneforyou@hotmail.com] Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2007 11:16 AM To: pianotech@ptg.org Subject: Voicing down hammers<o:p></o:p> </div> <o:p> </o:p> Hey Now,   David Love wrote,   "After you take them off you can cut them open and look for fossils"   I nominate this as the best line of the weekend. Or at least Saturday morning. Thanks for the laugh David.   Marcel Carey suggested a few drops of vodka? That's a new one on me. I'm a tequila man myself, would that work?  Of course if I tried it (vodka or tequila), it would have to be in the evening. I may be tempted to take a few shots from the hypo oiler thing. I have a grey market G 3 that would shatter glass I'd like to try this on. Problem is it's in a Chapel. Hmmm I can just imagine taking a bottle, hypo oiler, and a shot glass to the next tuning. Come think of when I leave that piano I'm usually ready for a shot of something.   Steve Blasyak   <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Orange</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">County</st1:PlaceType> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">CA</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>.   Pura Vida  <o:p></o:p> <div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'> <hr size=2 width="100%" align=center> </div> Climb to the top of the charts!  Play Star Shuffle:  the word scramble challenge with star power. <a href="http://club.live.com/star_shuffle.aspx?icid=starshuffle_wlmailtextlink_oct" target="_new">Play Now!</a><o:p></o:p> </div> </body> </html>