<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 5.50.4134.600" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT color=#000080></FONT> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = BORDER-LEFT: #000080 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: = black"><B>From:</B> <A title=Wimblees@AOL.COM = href="mailto:Wimblees@AOL.COM">Wimblees@AOL.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> October 23, 2001 4:55 = PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> pins and needles</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT size=2>List <BR><BR>Now that = I am taking care of university pianos, I am doing a lot more voicing.  More = voicing means more needles. So I went to the local fabric store looking for = <BR>#17 needles, which is what I have been told is the right size for voicing. = I found some, but they wanted $2.50 for 12 needles. As I was looking around, I = found a box of 100 #17 straight pins for the same amount of money. Being the = cheap skate that I am, it was a no brainer to pick the box of pins over the = dozen needles. <BR><BR></FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT = size=2></FONT></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT = size=2></FONT></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT color=#000080> <DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans">Pins & needles?  Apples and oranges!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans">And what's a #17 needle?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans">Try #7 Sharp needles.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans">Del</FONT></FONT></DIV></DIV></FONT> <DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT size=2><FONT face="Lucida = Sans" color=#000080 size=3></FONT> </DIV></FONT></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>