NEw Year and so on

[Isaac OLEG]

My dear Andre,

I hope it is not too late to send you my best wishes for the 2003
year.

I guess you have all the batteries full to the mouth, and you
appreciate your holidays.

I hoppe you twoo are well , a good health and that life is going easy
for you.

I wish the best realisations for the coming year

I are very buzy finishing my piano, a customer is waiting to hear it
and indeed I 've done so much unexpected things on it that it will
probably come well actually.

I where honored by a visit from David Stanwood, with Michiel Van Loon
and Frans Petijouw all together in Vitry.

Michiel is a very nice man, we did the same "Mobylette" trip when we
where teenagers !

A very good time we had, and my friend Stephen Polello was there with
his compagne Claire, which is designing the new piano he build soon.

They where presented the concert piano, and dismount it to analyse
things AlaStanwood.

I will send Arnold some pictures of nice things Stephen have used on
his concert grand he build 12 years before (he is the kind of guy that
cut the sides of a grand to allow for less height in the action
cavity.

Stephen is organising seminars in a piano school in Valence, I have
suggested him to ask you to come there for a training on
voicing/regulation for instance. I remember Arnold asked me if Stephen
could do the same in Holland, he is a specialist in old strings, he
have somewhere strings that are made to his specifications for antique
instruments (better than Pure sound he tells me , 4 different kind are
available).

Kisses anyone, be well.

Friendly regards.

Isaac