<div class="messageinfo separator"><br></div>  <table class="messageheader" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> <tbody><tr><td class="label" nowrap="nowrap">From:</td><td>"David Nereson" <dnereson@4dv.net></td></tr> <tr><td class="label" nowrap="nowrap">To:</td><td>"Pianotech List" <pianotech@ptg.org></td></tr> <tr><td class="label" nowrap="nowrap">Date:</td><td> Thu, 13 Dec 2007 00:45:10 -0700</td></tr> <tr><td class="label" nowrap="nowrap">Subject:</td><td> Re: plastic flanges</td></tr> </tbody></table> <br>"....<font face="Arial Narrow">I just finished replacing all the hammer and wippen flanges on a 1948 Winter spinet.  (Why people want to put money into these things, I don't know.) ...."<br><br><span style="font-family: courier;">Why? Because I intend to keep my wife, my only one, for atleast one lifetime. I wonder if there's a connection between superfluous trash and divorce rates? If something can be fixed, and it serves a valuable purpose, then it should be fixed. I own a 1935 Winter spinet and have no problems with it. I recently did some work on and sold a 1949 Winter spinet and the owner is delighted. Our society's preoccuapation with "if it's broke, don't fix it" is like a disease. </span><br></font><div><font face="Arial Narrow"> </font></div> <BR><BR>Noah Haverkamp<br>Know-a Piano<br>http://www.knowapiano.com<br>347-308-0094<br>Fax: 718-701-2071