<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>They must be beyond correction! The historical value table clearly shows that the dimensions of a Model S and Model D are the same: 8' 11.75" ! I never knew that.</div><div><br></div><div>I wonder what to do with my Steinway upright that came from the factory with a Kelly plate? Alas, a Stein-was, I guess...</div><div><br></div><div>And if parts with patents newer than the manufacture date are verboten, and the average age of the 200 rebuilt S&S a year is 75, do they all still have angled capstans and all the rest of the pre-1984 parts?!?</div><div><br></div><div>--Cy--</div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div>Cy Shuster, RPT</div><div>Albuquerque, NM</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.shusterpiano.com">www.shusterpiano.com</a></div><div><a href="http://www.facebook.com/shusterpiano">www.facebook.com/shusterpiano</a></div></span>
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<br><div><div>On Oct 18, 2012, at 10:23 PM, Dale Erwin <<a href="mailto:erwinspiano@aol.com">erwinspiano@aol.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><font color="navy" size="2" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif"><span style="color: navy; font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: medium; ">Or let the matter pass; as Steinway is, by their own deeply humble admission in the remainder of the text, the paragon of human perfection: beyond correction or reproach???</span><br style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: medium; "><br style="font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: medium; "><span style="color: navy; font-family: arial, helvetica; font-size: medium; ">Thumpe</span>
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