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<div class="label"><span style="color: rgb(192, 0, 0);"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: comic sans ms;">Del, thanks so much for the advice. I don't have pictures but the crack is from an agraffe to the tuning pin field, sending tuning awry, of course. I've passed along advice from the List and they are currently looking for a replacement piano...probably the best bet. In fact, I had bad information about the age of the piano...it is from 1994, so warranty help is most unlikely.<br><br>Thanks to all...this List is a tremendous resource. Still. No matter what PTG says.<br></span></span></span><br>From: </div>
<div class="details"><div class="abook"><span class="email">"Delwin D Fandrich" <del@fandrichpiano.com></span></div>
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<div class="details">pianotech@ptg.org</div></div></div><p class="yiv1015794010MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:navy;">Stan,</span></p><p class="yiv1015794010MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:navy;"> </span></p><p class="yiv1015794010MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:navy;">Even
though these frames were vacuum-cast there will be enough differences
between individual plates to preclude economically replacing the
casting.</span></p><p class="yiv1015794010MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:navy;"> </span></p><p class="yiv1015794010MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:navy;">This does, however, sound very much like a repair that could be accomplished by the Lock-N-Stitch method. See <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.locknstitch.com/">http://www.locknstitch.com/</a></span></p><p class="yiv1015794010MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:navy;"> </span></p><p class="yiv1015794010MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:navy;">From
your description of the crack—a picture would be worth quite a few
words—it should be able to make this repair without removing the frame
from the piano. If this cannot be done it is probably not economically
feasible to repair the piano. </span></p><p class="yiv1015794010MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:navy;"> </span></p><p class="yiv1015794010MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:navy;">Before doing anything else the owner should take a look at his/her warrantee.</span></p><p class="yiv1015794010MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:navy;"> </span></p><p class="yiv1015794010MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:navy;">ddf</span></p><p class="yiv1015794010MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:navy;"> </span></p><p class="yiv1015794010MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#632423;">Delwin D Fandrich</span><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#632423;"></span></p><p class="yiv1015794010MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#632423;">Piano Design & Fabrication</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#632423;"></span></p><p class="yiv1015794010MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#632423;">6939 Foothill Court SW, </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#632423;">Olympia, Washington 98512 USA</span></p><p class="yiv1015794010MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#632423;">Phone 360.515.0119 — Cell 360.388.6525</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"sans-serif";color:#632423;"></span></p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#632423;"><a
rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="compose?to=del@fandrichpiano.com"><span style="color:blue;">del@fandrichpiano.com </span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#632423;">— </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:#632423;"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="compose?to=ddfandrich@gmail.com"><span style="color:blue;">ddfandrich@gmail.com</span></a></span><br><br><div><font face="comic sans ms"><strong><font color="#c00000">Stan Ryberg <br>Barrington IL <br><u>jstan40@sbcglobal.net</u></font></strong></font></div></td></tr></table>