<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">There was at least one article a while back in the journal a while back concerning this very issue. I would under no circumstance feel responcible for a plate cracking in the course of tuning a piano.<BR>
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Andrew Remillard<BR>
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