<br><br> <div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 13, 2007 10:12 AM, Noah Haverkamp <<a href="mailto:noahhaverkamp@yahoo.com">noahhaverkamp@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"> <div><br></div> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"> <tbody> <tr> <td nowrap>From:</td> <td>"David Nereson" <<a href="mailto:dnereson@4dv.net" target="_blank">dnereson@4dv.net</a>></td></tr> <tr> <td nowrap>To:</td> <td>"Pianotech List" <<a href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org" target="_blank">pianotech@ptg.org</a>></td></tr> <tr> <td nowrap>Date:</td> <td>Thu, 13 Dec 2007 00:45:10 -0700</td></tr> <tr> <td 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><font color="#888888"> <div><font face="Arial Narrow"> </font></div><br><br>Noah Haverkamp<br>Know-a Piano<br><a href="http://www.knowapiano.com/" target="_blank">http://www.knowapiano.com</a><br>347-308-0094<br>Fax: 718-701-2071</font></blockquote> </div> <div><br>I agree with you Noah but for  a different reason. I began my career as a piano tech almost 39 years ago we rebuilt a Steinway grand in class at the course I took. I didn't see or touch another Steinway for 15 years afterward but instead worked primarily on old uprights, spinets and consoles. I had promised myself when I began that I wouldn't become a piano"snob" but instead work on whatever came my way. I have adhered to that promise ever since. I educate my customers, I explain the he good and bad points of their pianos if they want to proceed, I'll do the work. It all spends the same. </div> <div>Mike<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.<br>Michael Magness<br>Magness Piano Service<br>608-786-4404<br><a href="http://www.IFixPianos.com"> www.IFixPianos.com</a><br>email <a href="mailto:mike@ifixpianos.com">mike@ifixpianos.com</a> </div>