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At 08:43 PM 12/30/2002 -0800, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite cite><font face="arial" size=2>I brought home a
very expensive free piano late last night. This is an old piano
that my step father had acquired decades ago in Texas and then
transported to California. Eventually this piano found it's way to
a garage about one mile from the central California coast where it rested
on it's side on a cold concrete floor for the better part of 13
years.</font></blockquote><br>
I would be very concerned about the straight side delaminating once it
dries out.<br>
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Let it go through a few seasons in a heated space before you touch
it.<br>
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<div>Regards,</div>
<br>
<div>Jon Page, piano technician</div>
<div>Harwich Port, Cape Cod, Mass.</div>
<div><a href="mailto:jonpage@attbi.com" EUDORA=AUTOURL>mailto:jonpage@attbi.com</a></div>
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