<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.5730.11" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV> <DIV><STRONG><EM>Dear Compadres</EM></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><EM>  Thanks for the myriad opinons,rants & Urban legends.  I promise to post the Steinway warranty this week. This truly is one of my favorite pianos in the world when tweaked to my liking & I am grateful that I've had the oppurtunity to make most of my income working on this piano.  I hope they continue but I know from experience when a person or a firm discontinues that which has always made them successful it's a downhill slide.  I see it getting steeper.</EM></STRONG></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><EM>  Dale</EM></STRONG></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>In light of this thread on our favorite piano maker, I had an<BR>interesting conversation with one of our photography professors last<BR>week.  He was telling me of the myriad problems with a camera line that<BR>I had always thought of as the top quality, most expensive medium format<BR>camera.  Things like frequent light leaks, and oddly a camera body that<BR>shrinks!  It is an aluminum alloy that in 8 - 10 years (unlike Young<BR>Chang brackets) shrinks!  This changes the distance from the lens to the<BR>film plane making the pictures out of focus.  We compared notes on the<BR>workmanship of these supposedly top line products.  <BR><BR>It was interesting!<BR><BR>dave<BR><BR>David M. Porritt<BR>dporritt@smu.edu</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>