<!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 style="BACKGROUND-POSITION: 0px 0px; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; MARGIN: 5px 10px 10px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bgColor=#ffffff background="" scroll=yes ORGYPOS="0"> <DIV><FONT size=2>One comes to mind,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>the Mighty Wurlitzer Theatre organ, which was a fantastic megalomaniac machine, and lived for a very short time, killed by talking movies.  Bah, even Brontosaurs died eventually.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Again, sorry if I sound negative, this is not my purpose.  But truly, I stick on the pleasure I have finding a nice Victorian piano and restoring it, then playing it and fine tuning it, voicing it carefully to my taste, and, why not, sharing the pleasure with some few.  I have a friend building clavichords, and who doesn't want to know about pianos (so vulgaire).  Good for him, and for me, who happen to love his instruments.  But indeed, I ran across a doctor who had three pianos in his living room; after I tuned them (one Bechstein A, one Steinway B and one Pleyel 3 bis), he took me to his private room and showed me his Yamaha PSwhatever electronic keyboard and, with sparkling eyes, asked me to try it, and said to me : "now, that is a piano, isn't it ? ...".  Well, while I was clearly disgusted, I must say that nothing can stand in front of the joy that this guy had to share his precious finding.  Subjectivity again, subjectivity !</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>But, when I see the world and the "in" values raising everywhere, I can't say but agree with Ric's </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>insights on the matter.  Which of us has a french polished mahogany dinner table in his living room ?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Best regards.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Stéphane Collin.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>