<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> Sad story indeed Phil... and I have just one thing to say... at least at the moment.... :) and that is..... I just hope these are not the same kind of people who would eventually get to carry guns on planes. :) philromano@attglobal.net wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE><style></style> I have to chime in here to tell a very sad story. a number of years ago I was called to by my brother ( a sound system installer) to come to a nightclub that he had been contracted by, to look at a piano that the owners wanted to get "tuned". This particular nightclub catered to gay clientele ( as Jerry Seinfeld said "not that there's anything wrong with that!"). The piano was similar to what is being described here. The owner's grandma had left it to her and she thought it would be the perfect thing to use in the "piano bar" section of the club. The instrument needed much TLC and the services of someone like Ed Swenson et al. I pleaded with them to remove it from the premises and have a proper restoration done or sell it to me. They wouldn't hear of it. The last I heard they had removed the action, painted it white and installed some electronic keyboard and had many patrons dancing on the lid to the booming beat of the  DJ. The action ended up in the dumpster and was carted off before I could retrieve it. The club has since long closed. Good riddance. May the Erard r.i.p.  Phil Romano Myrtle Beach, SC <a href="mailto:philromano@attglobal.net">philromano@attglobal.net</a></blockquote> -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. Bergen, Norway <A HREF="mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no">mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no</A>   </body> </html>