<!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 6.00.5730.11" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>David and Ron: Thanks for your input. This was a new customer, who, unfortunately for him, called me after receiving the piano. The piano was "rebuilt" by Sonny's rebuilder, not SAMA. I had SAMA replace a pinblock and strings on a grand a couple of years back, and was happy with their work.  I guess it is possible that SAMA or some other shop did the restringing and pinblock work, as it was well done, but the piano needed a new board as well. And the action work was very poor - new Abel hammers on shanks that were hung cockeyed, poorly aligned, poorly regulated, 60+ grams touchweight, and poorly aligned dampers to boot.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I feel sorry for the guy who put out the $8400 for a piano sight unseen - sometimes we learn the hard way!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Patrick C. Poulson<BR>Registered Piano Technician<BR>Piano Technicians Guild</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>