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                            Ron Nossaman &lt;rnossaman@cox.net&gt;;                            <br>
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                                <span style="font-weight:bold:">Subject:</span>
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                            Re: [pianotech] Lowering the stack on a Steinway                            <br>
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                                        <td valign="top" style="font:inherit;">On 10/10/2012 8:09 PM, Euphonious Thumpe wrote:<BR>&gt; Ron, please don't edit and quote my comment out of context. (Let's leave<BR>&gt; that to the politicians!) I thought I'd made it clear that the cutting<BR>&gt; surface is the vinyl baseboard molding ON TOP of the plate glass -- not<BR>&gt; the glass itself!<BR><BR>My mistake. I understood you were cutting against the glass.<BR>Ron N<BR></td>
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