<!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>I worked in a prestigious piano restoration center in New York a few years ago. A very wealthy man, who owned houses throughout the world, sent us his Steinway grand -- a monstrous piano which I believe was from the 1870's --  that he'd won at an auction. The piano's plate was cracked, and we gave him the estimate of several thousand dollars to manufacture a matching plate. He refused, and could not be convinced otherwise. So we had the next best thing done - -repair the crack. After we totally restored the instrument and I gave it the final tuning, I sat down to play, and it sounded good. A few minutes later while chatting with some co-workers, we hear a bit of an explosion come from the piano. The moral of the story: THERE'S A TIME AND PLACE TO TRY TO SAVE $$$, AND A TIME AND PLACE WHERE YOU HAVE TO SPEND THE $$$. I hope the customer learned the lesson well.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Jesse Gitnik    NYC</DIV> <DIV>Tech. since 1980</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>