<HTML><HEAD> <META charset=UTF-8 http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charse= t=utf-8"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2730.1700" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fffff= f"> <DIV>In a message dated 1/8/2004 8:17:08 PM Pacific Standard Time, Erwinspia= no@aol.com writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue = 2px solid"> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue = 2px solid"> <DIV><SPAN class=031433203-09012004><FONT face=Arial size=2>The custom= er is a concert pianist and is adamant that he wants the factory scaling if = at all possible.  This is 1908 supposedly after the sale of Weber to AE= olian, so I am not sure earlier pre merger piano scales would be right.</FON= T></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000040 size=3><STRONG>>&gt= ;>>>> Also was it tuned at A-435 0r what. This will have an obvi= ous effect on tension and tone.   Its a nice idealistic notion bei= ng adamant about factory scaling and all but one is unlikely to get the " fa= ctory scaling " unless someone on list has a fairly close cousin of it in th= ere client base with original strings,   Know what I mean? I'= d call Del in a case like this.</STRONG></FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000040 size=3><STRONG> &= nbsp; Dale</STRONG></FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue = 2px solid"> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000040></FONT></SPAN> </DI= V></BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000040>  </FONT></DIV></BO= DY></HTML>