<font color='black' size='2' face='Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, Serif'><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; ">Greetings, </font> <div style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2">    The Blair School has some P22's that were purchased in the late 1960's.  They are still in use, and they are still performing trouble free.  These are practice room pianos, and they have just,in the last 5 years, run out of  hammers and key bushings.   Things like dampers, pinning, pinblocks, bridges, trapwork are still doing fine.   I am amazed at their durability.  Maybe they think they are Acrosonics, I don't know. </font></div> <div style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2">    As far as grands, the C3 was the better choice for us, around the school.  Bean counters somehow managed to be sold a number of C2's in the mix, and now, 10 years later, the C2 pianos are obviously the more worn, plus a far greater amount of string breakage than the C3.  I don't why, but perhaps a scaling thing?  We have strings break all over school, even in some new Steinways, so it isn't specific to the brand. </font></div> <div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="2" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; ">    The Kawai K-3 models that we also have been buying seem to hold up well, also.  I will be curious to see how they handle a decade of digital debauchery , too. </font></div> <div style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; "><br> <div style="font-size: 13px; clear: both; "><font color="black" face="arial" size="2">Ed Foote RPT<br> http://www.piano-tuners.org/edfoote/index.html</font></div> <br> <br> <div style="font-family: helvetica, arial; font-size: 10pt; color: black; ">-----Original Message-----<br> From: Shelley  <br> Subject: Re: [CAUT] Yamaha Exchange program; pros, cons<br> <br> <div id="AOLMsgPart_1_a2acb624-f030-4e3a-b578-c8b217b848ad"> <font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt">Thanks to all for your comments.  Some of which we had thought of and some of which we had not!<br> <br> Our dealer has P22’s to send right away.  What do you who have experience with them think of them?<br> Which grands would you recommend?  Don’t know if we can get any C5’s.  I have a few in my client list and generally love them!<br> We have plans to buy one of the loaners per year.<br> <br> Shelley<br>  </span></font> </div>  </div> </div> </font>