<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On 10-jan-2007, at 18:29, David Andersen wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><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: 12px; 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; "><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><DIV>Memories, memories (sung to the tune of the same name)---that was like a different life: I was living in Long Beach, and Sherman Clay was the 800-pound gorilla in town, selling Steinways, Sohmers, Young Chang, some Kawai, some Korean pianos, in stores all over greater LA and all over the western United States; I prepared pianos in I think 4 stores at that time; they were by far my largest client during those years ('83-'87). </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I would spend 2 and sometimes 3 days a week in a warehouse in a vast gray industrial/oil processing plant sector of Carson, California, about 10 miles north of Long Beach, preparing new Steinways and supervising 2 or 3 other techs in preparing new Daewoo (Sojin) or Hanil pianos from Korea---massive warranty issues---and working 10-12 hours a day, 6 days a week, scrambling to support a young family and a beautiful woman with expensive tastes. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>And I still had dark hair. <g></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>David Andersen</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I kinda like that David Andersen.</DIV><DIV>I remember meeting you a couple of years ago in LA and in my memory I see a totally white haired piano technician in a beautiful mercedes.</DIV><DIV>You apparently know something about setting pins.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>OOR</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; 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; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; 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; "><DIV>friendly greetings</DIV><DIV>from</DIV><DIV>André Oorebeek</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Antoni van leeuwenhoekweg 15</DIV><DIV>1401 VW Bussum</DIV><DIV>the Netherlands</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>tel : 0031 35 6975840</DIV><DIV>tel : 0031 652388 008</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>where music is, </DIV><DIV>no harm can be</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>