<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 5.50.4611.1300" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>    "<FONT face="Times = New Roman" size=3>I have been to several 'famous' factories in Europe and also = three times to<BR>the Yamaha Pianotechnical Academy in Hamamatsu.<BR>Yamaha is the = best place in the world for learning, according to me."<BR><BR>André Oorebeek</FONT><BR></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Gott im Himmel! Andre. I'd love to go = just once. Although, from what I've heard, it can be grueling. Those Japanese are = just sooooooooo,,,,,,,,,,,   type A personalities, if you know what = I mean.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>    Or am I just leaping = at the wrong conclusions, again. The reason I ask, is that I spoke with a tech = who went there, and he said that he spent three hours getting the dip just tight, = and they said, " dip not right, do over please." He spent like three days = working on the regulation on a new grand, and then they said. "After touch not = quite right, do over please." </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>    Sounds like boot = camp to me. ( Of course, you'd just HAVE to come away from that a better = tech.)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Kevin E. Ramsey<BR><A href="mailto:ramsey@extremezone.com">ramsey@extremezone.com</A> </FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>