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<A title=noahhaverkamp@yahoo.com href="mailto:noahhaverkamp@yahoo.com">Noah
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, December 13, 2007 9:12
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> winter spinet</DIV>
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<TD>"David Nereson" <<A
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<TD>Thu, 13 Dec 2007 00:45:10 -0700</TD></TR>
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<TD>Re: plastic
flanges</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><!-- type = text --><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><BR>Noah Haverkamp<BR>Know-a
Piano<BR>http://www.knowapiano.com<BR>347-308-0094<BR>Fax: 718-701-2071</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial Narrow"> Oh, I pull all kinds of
stuff out of the dumpster that people throw out, and fix it up and use it or
recycle it. But when a lesser name spinet is worth only $500 -
$1000 in the first place, why put $2000 into it when you could put that much
down on a new console or studio upright? I feel like I'm wasting my
rebuilding skills. It's like dumping a couple $grand into restoring a
Pinto or a Chevette. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial Narrow"> --David Nereson, RPT
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