<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1400" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: = Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=rol= e_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 6/23/2004 1:08:12 PM Central Daylight Time, Wimblees@aol.com writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><= FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size= =2>But was it worth the time and money it took? In other words, did you feel you were= compensated fairly for the time it took you to redesign and make the bridge? Did you also, by any chance, replace the soundboard on th= is piano?</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV>Good questions.  I didn't make much money doing this, however I wr= ote it off as a trip to the University.  Since I never learn on a customer'= s piano I often take on projects like this just for the education, not the profit.  Hopefully the next time around I will be faster and not need t= o correct as many mistakes along the way.  I should have replaced the soundboard, but at that point it became a budgetary issue and I just had to = stop it some place.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Andrew</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>