<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=windows-1252"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1400" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello List</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The Lindner piano company is dead. The = so-called "pianos" they made are not. In the UK I used constantly to have to = tell people "Take it back wherever you got it from - I don't want anything to = do with it". That scenario is gradually receding now into history - thank = goodness! The company made them in such vast quantities - not only little uprights, = but a strange triangular shaped "grand" also.  One has to be aware that = these wretched things are still extant albeit in ever decreasing = numbers.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Regards from Sunny = Sussex-on-Sea</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Michael G = (UK)</FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML>