<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML style="FONT-SIZE: x-small; FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif"><HEAD><TITLE>Re: Tuning lever length</TITLE> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <STYLE></STYLE> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.3268" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=3>Boy, I sure did. It's still the only thing I've ever won. No, actually I very quickly realized the student lever that came with the Potter course was pretty much a toy, so I bought one of those nylon handled extension levers from Schaff. I still use that lever in the shop for chip tuning, etc.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=3></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=3>So I presume you were there at the North Carolina Regional Conference on my lucky day?! That was the first conference I ever went to. I was very impressed with the conference and the PTG in general. And boy, was I ever lucky to win that lever - I've really liked it over the years - I keep it in two cloth sleeves in my tool kit and it still looks like new!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=3></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=3>Thanks for remembering.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=3></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=3>Terry Farrell</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><FONT size=3></FONT> </DIV> <DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=3>"I've been using an eleven-inch-long Keith Bowman/Renner tuning lever (titanium shaft) for all of my ten years of tuning pianos"...</FONT></DIV> <DIV align=left> </DIV> <DIV align=left>Which you won, by the way...otherwise you'd probably still be using a student model...;-]<BR><BR>David Ilvedson, RPT<BR>Pacifica, CA 94044</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>