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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message -----
<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=michael@gambles.fsnet.co.uk
href="mailto:michael@gambles.fsnet.co.uk">Michael Gamble</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org
href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, February 07, 2004 9:26 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: Square piano</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello List and Arthur =
Marino</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks for your comment. The swimming =
lesson went
swimmingly, the violin lesson went extremely well and as a result we =
went to
Brighton and did some shopping in the major complex there called =
"Churchill
Square" Maxim has just left his Primary school in order to go =
"privately" whre
his talents will, we hope, be noticed and built upon. Difficult to say =
when he's
only 6yrs old, but smaller class of 7 (seven) should give a better =
Teacher:Pupil
ratio than 26:1. We have High Hopes! We needed a "bespoke" uniform as =
dictated
by his "new" school. (Founded in 1512 - so older than the square
piano!)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Yes, that string repair on the Astor =
& Horwood
was remarkably neat. I treat each of the two ends to be knotted in the =
same way
by making them resemble a long-tailed "Omega" . Then I bend the rounded =
end to
about 45 deg. before marrying the two into the well-known configuration =
of a
"Reef Knot". Mostly I do this for broken Bass covered strings in order =
to
preserve the integrity of the sound. I have even stripped back the =
copper
covering to give more available core without compromising the tonal =
quality of a
matched pair! Amazing what you can get away with when you =
try!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>TTFN & Regards from a Moon-lit =
Sussex Downlands
village....</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Michael G =
(UK)</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>