<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jan 10, 2007, at 1:42 PM, Mark Bolsius wrote:</DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy; color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; ">Our challenge is to raise our skill levels to accommodate the higher end of the piano market – or select our specialist area and work in that. Or to have a diverse enough range of products/services to earn a living from – but that’s another thread!</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy; color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; ">Ooops there goes my dime…</SPAN><O:P style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" color="navy" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy; color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; ">Cheers</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></P></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>Great post, Mark....thanks, brother. This comes right back around to my absolute belief that the singular beauty and thrill of the acoustic piano well-prepared will never die.</DIV><DIV>"<SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000080" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Our challenge is to raise our skill levels to accommodate the higher end of the piano market..."</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000080" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV>Truer words were never spoken. To everybody reading this list: to survive first, then thrive for life, go to the high end. It takes a lot of work, risk, change, and flexibility, but it's where you need to go to stay in the heart of this business.<BR><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>David Andersen</DIV></BODY></HTML>