<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><div>More than just "decent", Dave. I&#39;m working on a massive, artcase Ivers and Pond that&#39;s superb! Many quite fine instruments used this system. (And it would be nice if someone made accurate butt-plates, with the correct style screws, too.) It seems that a small ad in the back in the back of the Journal might get someone enough work of this type to make it attractive.<br /><br />Thumpe</div></td></tr></table>            <div id="_origMsg_">
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                            David Doremus &lt;algiers_piano@bellsouth.net&gt;;                            <br>
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                                <span style="font-weight:bold:">Subject:</span>
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                            Re: [pianotech] brass rail duplication                            <br>
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                                        <td valign="top" style="font:inherit;">On 9/11/12 9:25 PM, Encore Pianos wrote:<BR>&gt; <BR>&gt; So here I sit with a broken heart, I took 2 bennies and my semi-truck won’t start (Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen)<BR>&gt; <BR>&gt; <BR>And you're down to seeds and stems again, too....<BR><BR>You'd think there'd be a machine shop out there that could do this accurately and not too expensively. I have a neighbor who's a metal sculptor, and there are several marine machine shops not far away. I'll try to look into this, it's something I've been meaning to ask about for a while but have never had anyone willing to put the money into it. There are more than a few decent pianos out there that may need parts like this replaced. I'm thinking particularly of the English grands that have a brass "comb" that holds the long center pin in place and spaces the hammer butts. Do any European suppliers replace
 these?<BR><BR>--Dave<BR>New Orleans<BR></td>
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