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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial">----- Original Message -----</DIV> <DIV =
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> Bill Ballard</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesd=
ay, October 24, 2001 3:25 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial"><B>To:=
</B> pianotech@ptg.org</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial"><B>Subject:<=
/B> RE: Yamaha Quits Schaff</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <P><BR><BR>At 6:30 AM=
-0700 10/24/01, DALE ERWIN wrote:<BR>>Try the Tokiwa pre-cut da=
mper sets from Pacific/Brooks to replace<BR>>the loss of Yamaha parts.=
<BR><BR>These are very good felts. The flats for the most part don't oink=
,<BR>but I did run into some difficulty with the plain tri-chord wedges o=
n<BR>a M&H AA whose gaps between strings on a note were a little wide=
r<BR>than the size of these Tokiwa wedges. I'm going to miss the vertical=
<BR>felts the most (the U1 and U3 sets).<BR><BR>Bill Ballard RPT<BR>NH Ch=
apter, P.T.G.</P> <P> &nbs=
p;  =
; BILL-------Have h=
ad similar experience and defeated it by just slitting the cut deeper and=
inserting kite string.</P> <P> =
Dale Erwin</P></BLOCKQUOTE></B=
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