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<DIV> A technician friend of mine showed up to tune a =
grand
and noticed all the plate screws were missing. He asked the owner =
about
it, who said, "Oh, I took them out to have them re-plated." =
Needless to
say, he didn't raise pitch or tune, but just waited til the screws were
returned, then reinstalled them. Nothing bad happened, (not to say =
it
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<DIV> --David Nereson, RPT</DIV></BODY></HTML>