<html> <head> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 10 (filtered)"> <style>  </style> </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space;-webkit-line-break: after-white-space'> <div class=Section1> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>You can buy 2 (maybe 3) Yamaha U5s for the price of one K52.  Better and cleaner sounding, easier to tune and service, easier to turn over should you decide to go that route.  It’s a no brainer for me.  I find the 1098’s wirey sounding full of falseness, difficult and unrewarding to tune.  Bostons I find also hard to tune (too enamored of tight tuning pins), cold and dry sounding.  </span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'> </span></font></p> <div> <p><font size=2 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt; color:navy'>David Love<br> davidlovepianos@comcast.net<br> www.davidlovepianos.com</span></font><font color=navy><span style='color:navy'> </span></font></p> </div> <div> <div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=1 color=black face=Helvetica><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black'>List,</span></font></p> </div> <p style='margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom: .0001pt'><font size=1 color=black face=Helvetica><span style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:Helvetica;color:black'> </span></font></p> <div> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=1 color=black face=Helvetica><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black'>My school is interested in a large purchase of pianos...10 or more.   They are talking with Steinway.   The Boston would be included in the upright part of the purchase or the K52.   Opinions on the bigger Boston uprights and the K52.   Obviously, you can probably get 2 Bostons for the K52, but is the K52 a decent piano these days?  </span></font></p> </div> <p style='margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom: .0001pt'><font size=1 color=black face=Helvetica><span style='font-size:9.0pt; font-family:Helvetica;color:black'> </span></font></p> <div> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=1 color=black face=Helvetica><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black'>David Ilvedson, RPT<br> Pacifica, CA 94044</span></font></p> </div> </div> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'></span> </span></font></p> <div><span style='orphans: 2;text-align:auto;widows: 2;-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;word-spacing:0px'><span style='orphans: 2;widows: 2;-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: 0px;word-spacing:0px'> <div> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=1 color=black face=Helvetica><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black'>Doug Wood</span></font></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=1 color=black face=Helvetica><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black'>School of Music</span></font></p> </div> <div> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=1 color=black face=Helvetica><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black'>University of Washington</span></font></p> </div> </div> </span> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'> </span></font></p> </span></div> </div> </body> </html>