<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2 FAMILY="SERIF" FACE="Times New Roman" LANG="0">In a message dated 11/24/2002 6:57:28 PM Pacific Standard Time, pianobuilders@olynet.com writes:<BR>
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Date:11/24/2002 6:57:28 PM Pacific Standard Time<BR>
From:<A HREF="mailto:pianobuilders@olynet.com">pianobuilders@olynet.com</A><BR>
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<B>From:</B> <A HREF="mailto:Erwinspiano@aol.com">Erwinspiano@aol.com</A> <BR>
<B>To:</B> <A HREF="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> <BR>
<B>Sent:</B> November 24, 2002 6:20 PM<BR>
<B>Subject:</B> Re: Belly rail crown - Why???<BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SERIF" FACE="Times New Roman" LANG="0">In a message dated 11/24/2002 5:54:52 PM Pacific Standard Time, <A HREF="mailto:pianobuilders@olynet.com">pianobuilders@olynet.com</A> writes:<BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SERIF" FACE="Times New Roman" LANG="0"> As I suspected!!<BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">There is at least one Chinese manufacturer who has been doing something like this for some time now -- not intentionally, though, and not by design. They failed to cut the notches deep enough and left the feathered rib ends too thick.</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SCRIPT" FACE="Comic Sans MS" LANG="0"><BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 FAMILY="SERIF" FACE="Times New Roman" LANG="0"> How did it sound to you?<BR>
Dale</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SERIF" FACE="Times New Roman" LANG="0"><BR>
</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 FAMILY="SERIF" FACE="Times New Roman" LANG="0"> </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000080" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=3 FAMILY="SCRIPT" FACE="Comic Sans MS" LANG="0">Pretty bad. But in this case your question could not possibly be relevant. There were so many things wrong with the whole piano line that it would have been impossible to identify any part of the brassy, knarly, percussive, tinny, and generally obnoxious sound as having been related to or being caused by any part of what was wrong.</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SCRIPT" FACE="Comic Sans MS" LANG="0"><BR>
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