<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Jul 2, 2008, at 9:35 AM, tony wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; ">I'm a Institutional piano consultant.</span></blockquote></div><br><div><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>With all due respect, I don't think you have the knowledge and experience to be an institutional piano consultant, judging by what you have posted. Perhaps an institutional piano purchase consultant, and maybe there are places that need that kind of help. I think most places really need an institutional piano service consultant more than a purchase consultant, though. Doesn't matter what they buy, if the pianos are never well prepped to begin with, and aren't kept up. Even if an institution pays top dollar for what they think is the very best, if they don't hire a highly qualified tech, they have thrown all that money down the drain for all the good it does (other than to the piano manufacturing community, which certainly needs the help).<br class="Apple-interchange-newline">Regards,</div><div>Fred Sturm</div><div>University of New Mexico</div><div><a href="mailto:fssturm@unm.edu">fssturm@unm.edu</a></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div></div><br><div></div></div></body></html>