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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Dah, jeez, like isn’t dat duh way itz spozed
2B?? I yooziallly (use you wooly) bite them off wit my teeth.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman">Greetings,<BR><BR>I came across this while
doing an evaluation today. Photo attached. The customer received this piano as
payment for some other work they did for the selling party. The new owners
complained that the pedals weren't working right, etc. This is a 1904 Schaeffer
(Chicago) Upright. The middle pedal lever arm is missing, and a broken 1" dowel
rod was laying in the bottom of the piano.<BR><BR>I wish I'd taken photos of the
4-5 replacement hammers with new shanks, too. It looks like the tooner stuck the
hammers on the shanks and put a blob of glue on top. No collar of glue
underneath, just a blob on top. Then, since the tooner didn't have a saw, it
appears as if he just broke off the excess shank with his bare hands. Broken and
splintered shank sticking out of the glue blob about 3/8" above the back of the
hammer... :-)</FONT><BR></DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>