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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span =
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theory!</span></font></p>

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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>The last tech found problems and =
shimmed
the frame and or bed. This tilts the action enough to increase that blow =
and,
when sliding it out, raises the hammers into the =
stretcher.</span></font></p>

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me.</span></font></p>

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style='font-size:
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face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original =
Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> =
pianotech-bounces@ptg.org
[mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org] <b><span =
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf
Of </span></b>Michael Spalding<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, May 27, =
2003 10:33
PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> pianotech@ptg.org<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: captured =
action</span></font></p>

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Serif"'>Bob,</span></font></p>

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face="MS Sans Serif"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"MS Sans Serif"'>All pedals =
operated
satisfactorily, lots of wood-on-dirty-wood sound when the shift is =
operated.&nbsp;
Looked like it was sitting right down on the bed.</span></font></p>

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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"MS Sans Serif"'>Mike &amp; Jane =
Spalding</span></font></p>

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></font></b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span =
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> <a
href="mailto:BobDavis88@aol.com" =
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</span></font></b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span =
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><a
href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org" =
title="pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</a></span></font></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><font size=2 =
face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span=
></font></b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span =
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> 5/27/2003
6:10:02 PM </span></font></p>

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pan></font></b><font
size=2 face=Arial><span =
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> Re:
captured action</span></font></p>

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face=Arial
FAMILY=SANSSERIF><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>In =
a message
dated 5/27/2003 7:54:41 PM Pacific Standard Time, =
spalding48@earthlink.net
writes:<br>
<br>
<br>
</span></font></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=2 =
face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>This<br>
piano was recently inherited and moved from Gramma's on the coast =
</span></font></p>

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face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><br>
<br>
I was thinking incorrect new hammers until this latest post. Now--<br>
<br>
Any chance it's sitting on the shift iron, or on mixed-up leg or lyre
bolts/screws?<br>
Bob Davis </span></font></p>

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