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                                <span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span>
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                            Arlie Rauch &lt;adarpub@midrivers.com&gt;;                            <br>
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                                <span style="font-weight:bold:">To:</span>
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                             &lt;pianotech@ptg.org&gt;;                                                                                                     <br>
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                                <span style="font-weight:bold:">Subject:</span>
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                            [pianotech] Hammer boring                            <br>
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                            Sat, Feb 16, 2013 10:55:38 PM                            <br>
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                                        <td valign="top" style="font:inherit;">I just came into possession of a lovely Knabe upright made about 1887.&nbsp; It will need new hammers, but I'm thinking I'll need to bore the hammers myself if I am to get the same angles--I'd like to keep it true to original if possible.&nbsp; Is there is a jig available that will serve this purpose?<BR><BR>Arlie Rauch<BR></td>
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