<HTML><HEAD> <META charset=UTF-8 http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charse= t=utf-8"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2730.1700" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fffff= f"> <DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 11/17/2003 11:26:05 PM Pacific Standard Time, huffor= d1@airmail.net writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue = 2px solid"><FONT face=Arial>In my opinion  the longscale A- the 6ft f= our inch one, should not<BR>even be considered an A but, actually, another m= odel.  It shows the<BR>continuity in the company's view of the power of= marketing, which<BR>persists to this day,  that they would introduce a= nother model,<BR>substantially different than the first three mentioned abov= e, and yet<BR>refer to it by a designation which actually had applied to a<B= R>substantially different piano.  Some things never change.<BR>Regards,= Robin Hufford</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000040 size=4> Robin</FO= NT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000040 size=4></FONT> </= DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000040 size=4>  So true.= It truly is in a class by itself. I like looking at it this way. I must say= that I'm also fond of the square tail As -2 in spite of the shorter length = it's quite a piano.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#000040 size=4>   Da= le</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>