<!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 6.00.6000.16608" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The majority of the university benches have seen better days.  Most have been broken, glued, broken again, stripped screw holes repaired, broken yet again, etc, etc.  The pianos aren't much better so I'm not too excited about buying nice expensive benches for cigar boxes with rubber bands pretending to be pianos.  My hope is that most of the pianos will be replaced within the next few years along with new benches.  </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>In the meantime I would like to look into buying some inexpensive benches to keep things going for a while.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The benches the supply companies offer, (Schaff, Pianotek, etc), seem decent but I would like to try to do better budget-wise.  I haven't seen a price list for a while but I recall seeing some inexpensive Chinese benches a while back with quality consistent with those included with the typical Chinese import pianos.  That may be sufficient for now.  Can anyone tell me who is distributing these benches domestically?  I would like to get a catalog.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Rob Goodale, RPT</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Las Vegas, NV</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>