<!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 6.00.2800.1543" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi Barbara,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I think your sisinlaw wants the name. better to buy a Accrosonic and stick a S&S decal on it,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>she will have a better piano.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>You might explain that while S&S makes fine instruments the console never was one of their finer</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>moments. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Too few produced to reach the level of perfection of the 100 thousands made by other companys.</FONT></DIV> <DIV>Joe Goss RPT<BR>Mother Goose Tools<BR><A href="mailto:imatunr@srvinet.com">imatunr@srvinet.com</A><BR><A href="http://www.mothergoosetools.com">www.mothergoosetools.com</A></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=piano57@insightbb.com href="mailto:piano57@insightbb.com">Barbara Richmond</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, September 22, 2006 7:35 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> S Consoles</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Help!  Quick!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>My sister-in-law is on the hunt for a used piano and has asked me to look at a Steinway Console for her.  It's been a long, long time since I've serviced any of these and only remember that I didn't like them.  Besides difficulty in tuning is there anything else I can say to persuade her to look elsewhere?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>E-mail privately if you don't want to go on record.....  :-)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Barbara Richmond</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><A href="mailto:piano57@insightbb.com">piano57@insightbb.com</A></FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>