<!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 6.00.2800.1170" 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 6/23/04 4:47:47 PM Central Daylight Time, ANRPiano@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>Good questions.  I didn't make much money doing this, however I wrote it o= ff as a trip to the University.  Since I never learn on a customer's pia= no I often take on projects like this just for the education, not the profit.&n= bsp; Hopefully the next time around I will be faster and not need to correct as= many mistakes along the way. </FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV>It is a good policy not to learn on a customer's piano. But even with y= our experience, (all be it, just one piano), if a customer came to you with a similar piano, do you think you could get what it will really cost to do the= work? Or will you again have to compromise, and do it for less, even though = it would be a neat project to take on? What I'm really asking is, is it worth i= t to replace bridges on Sohmer grands, or should customers just accept what they have, and keep the piano until it "dies"?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Wim </DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>