<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>In a message dated 7/16/02 9:52:33 PM Eastern Daylight Time, mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com writes:<BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">The first thing that one sees is the plate with it's raised hitch-pin area. </BLOCKQUOTE><BR>
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A customer of mine inherited one of these. The tone was very disappointing all over, not just in the "killer" octave. He finally tired of it and bought a new Boston.<BR>
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Bill Maxim, RPT<BR>
Maxim Piano Service<BR>
Columbia, SC<BR>
wmaxim@aol.com (for personal reply)<BR>
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