<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; = charset=US-ASCII"> <TITLE>Message</TITLE> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2769" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN = class=640251420-05022006>I have one customer with a piano that I plan on doing a CA treatment to. A = gorgous overdamper in really good shape that I have talked about in previous posts. I have learned a lot from this list on how to go about that procedure. But after reading many of the posts on this topic, and = thinking about the majority of pianos I have come across with loose tuning pins, I have = to ask how often does anyone on this list actually come across a piano = with loose pins that is really worth a CA treatment? My experience is that most of = them are not worth saving in the first place in that even after the pins are = tight the piano is still going to be junk. In situations like this = I frequently suggest to the costomer that the money spent on this kind of work would = be better spent on a replacement piano. Of course that call is ultimately = up to the piano owner, but I'm just curious as to your = thoughts.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=640251420-05022006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN = class=640251420-05022006>-- Geoff Sykes</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN = class=640251420-05022006>-- Assoc. Los Angeles</SPAN></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>