<HTML><HTML>A little disclaimer.... I'm not an = employee of Petrof and or Geneva, so some of my information may be sketchy..= ..... I highly recommend that your customer contact her dealer and or Geneva= directly to relay any fears she may have. With that said. >From what I know Petrof is doing just fine..... granted many new piano suppl= ies have found this past year slow going. Not too long ago Petrof came under new management / ownership.... I'm not su= re of the exact details.... But the change over wasn't due to major finance = problems..... Also, Geneva and Petrof re worked their distribution agreement. Remember, Ge= neva is just the US distributor and is just one of many customers the Petrof= has. As to a "bail out" of Petrof by Geneva, we'll that's sounds highly unl= ikely. So its possible that someone took this renegotiation of a distributio= n agreement as a bad sign or somehow by some stretch of the imagination took= this information and made the assumption that Petrof and or Geneva was in t= rouble. Which again from what I know is not the case? One thing I found interesting about the posting was that the customer though= t she made a mistake by buying a Petrof because of potential finance problem= s. We'll that sounds a bit odd to me..... if she likes the way the piano pla= ys, sounds, looks, etc.etc...... when she bought the piano....what would it = matter if the company did go under... ( which again is not happening ) If fo= r some reason Steinway went out of business tomorrow, would that mean that a= ll Steinways would somehow become worthless, or that all of a sudden Steinwa= y blocks and boards would fail. Most likely this wouldn't be the case. I can= understand her potential fears about warranty service ... however Petrof is= good size company, and if for some reason they did  go out of business= , someone would pickup the company and at the very least parts would be avai= lable if needed. But again, from everything I know Petrof is not having any = major problems. Again if she is still "worried" I would have her call her dealer and or Gene= va directly . Hope that this information is of some use. John McGuire </HTML>