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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hazen, The two that I worked on out =
here in the
remote sticks were worse than any bird cage I ever worked =
on.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV>Joe Goss<BR><A
href="mailto:imatunr@srvinet.com">imatunr@srvinet.com</A><BR><A
href="http://www.mothergoosetools.com">www.mothergoosetools.com</A></DI=
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black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=HazenBannister@cs.com
href="mailto:HazenBannister@cs.com">HazenBannister@cs.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A =
title=pianotech@ptg.org
href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, March 04, 2003 =
7:57
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: entry level =
pianos</DIV>
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FAMILY="SANSSERIF">In a message dated 03/04/2003 9:54:07 AM Eastern =
Standard
Time, <A href="mailto:Wimblees@aol.com">Wimblees@aol.com</A> writes: =
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TYPE="CITE">Unless Sams' pianos have improved tremendously, I =
wouldn't
recommend them. I bought about 2 dozen of them 6 or 7 years ago, and =
had to
spend at least 5 - 6 hours on each one of them just to get them to =
play.
<BR><BR>Wim</FONT><FONT lang=0 style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" =
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FAMILY="SANSSERIF">Wim,<BR>The one's I got a couple years ago,were =
pretty
decent instruments.Of course with me only a couple hours away from =
Sam,I got
to hand pick the one's I bought.They also had been regulated,tuned,and =
gone
over pretty good.I had very little,if any,to do to any of them,and =
have had no
complaints since.<BR>Best,<BR>Hazen Bannister</FONT>
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