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<DIV> Hi Ed</DIV>
<DIV> Well said Pal. Nail on the head</DIV>
<DIV> Dale</DIV>
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The factory, I don't think, has the technicians needed to actually
finish <BR>setting their pianos up. They have enough assemblers, but as
far as the care <BR>needed, there is simply not enough people or room to do
it. <BR> The major problem for many techs is not the
condition of the instruments <BR>so much as the claims of such superior
products combined with such poor <BR>condition of them. The design of
the instrument is the only thing superior left, <BR>imho. The execution
of that design, and the following adjustments, are far less<BR>than stellar,
and seems to be deteriorating. All the while, the <BR>condescension of
the factory continues, and the people that know the disparity,(that <BR>would
be us techs), wonder how they can get away with such a facade.
<BR>Regards, <BR><BR><BR>Ed Foote RPT
<BR>http://www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/index.html<BR>www.uk-piano.org/edfoote/well_tempered_piano.html</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
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