Next time you could do something similar to what some rednecks around here do with their Toyota trucks. They leave the "yo" on, and peel off (or paint over) the rest. I'd guess you could leave a very clever message on your rebuilt piano.<div> <br></div><div>Maybe leave the "Improved" and grind off enough of the "Repetition Action" so it says "Improved by Jim."</div><div><br></div><div>OK, it's late. And my idea is corny. Sorry. But I'm pressing send anyway. :-D</div> <div><br></div><div><br></div><div>-- <br><div>John Formsma, RPT<br></div><div>Blue Mountain, MS</div></div><div><br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 8:05 PM, Jim Ialeggio <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim@grandpianosolutions.com" target="_blank">jim@grandpianosolutions.com</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">So there I was, peacefully grinding off vestigial duplexes (dupli?...nah) and cast aliquots from an unsuspecting plate...calmly minding my own business.<br> <br> I'm almost done...<br> <br> Then my eyes fall on that dreaded testament to bad taste and BS, the cast lettering; "Continuous Bent Rim". My calm disappears, and as my mouth starts foaming I take the grinder to the "C", "o", "n" continuing on the "Continuos" till it, "Bent" and "Rim" are dust on the floor.<br> <br> Then...whats this?! "Improved Repetition Action"...Oh no...off you go...!<br> <br> "Capo D'Astro Bar"...toast!<br> <br> Then as I'm calming down, my eyes fall on...just what are these??...phony perimeter rivets??...Geez, there must be hundreds of 'em.<br> <br> Should I or shouldn't I? I should and did...thus allowing the multitudinous rivetia to join their phony ferrous friends flooding the floor with filings (...still foaming are we?)<br> <br> Whew...There that's much better.<br> <br> Now that the evidence proclaiming whatever said evidence was proclaiming is gone and dust, does this piano still have a "Continuous Bent Rim", "Improved Repetition Action" and "Capo D'Astro Bar"???<br> <br> Hmm, I wonder...<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br> <br> <br> Jim Ialeggio<br> <br> -- <br> Jim Ialeggio <br> <a href="mailto:jim@grandpianosolutions.com" target="_blank">jim@grandpianosolutions.com</a><br> <a href="tel:978%20425-9026" value="+19784259026" target="_blank">978 425-9026</a><br> Shirley Center, MA<br> <br> </font></span></blockquote></div><br><br><br> </div>