<HTML>In a message dated 8/7/03 6:14:10 PM Central Daylight = Time, A440A@aol.com writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT= : 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">As Caut members, we really need= to get our sales pitch down to a science so that schools can be made to understand that replacement of better brands = of pianos is far more expensive than restoration, </BLOCKQUOTE> I agree with you. But the problem is not always a matter of educating the fa= culty, or the administration. Sometimes the problems lies with the fund rais= ing department of the school. It is much easier to get someone to donate $90= ,000 for a new Steinway, on which their name can be put, than to give $90,00= 0 to rebuild 3 or 4 older pianos. Wim </HTML>