<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">comments interspersed.....<BR><DIV><DIV>On Feb 22, 2007, at 9:18 AM, <A href="mailto:voce88@aol.com">voce88@aol.com</A> 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: 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; "><DIV style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.3333px; ">This brings me to a question that I know will get great input here - Cunningham is displaying at MARC - should we bring some examples of nicely rebuilt and refinished pianos - S&S, M&H, etc. - normal fare so our consistency could be seen?</SPAN></DIV></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE>Absolutely---bring your finest-sounding-and-feeling rebuilt Steinway, and, ONLY if it's really well-prepared and tweaked, a new M&H concert grand. Make the piano shine with obsessive rounds of tuning, voicing, and regulation, and you'll make a really memorable impression; pianotechs are the harshest critics in the world, and they'll ONLY be honest with you if you're pianos are something special; you'll hardly ever get the truth if they aren't up to snuff.<BR><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; "><DIV style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.3333px; "> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.3333px; ">OR - do we bring something quite unusual, like an 1860's pianoforte or an 1898 Art case Bosendorfer?</SPAN></DIV></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE>Nah.<BR><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; "><DIV style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.3333px; "> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.3333px; ">OR - a new M&H concert grand?</SPAN></DIV></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE>Yes. See above, but ONLY if it's tweaked out to concert level by a great technician. If it's anything other than stunning, leave it at home.<BR><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; "><DIV style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.3333px; "> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.3333px; ">.... or something I haven't even mentioned here?</SPAN></DIV></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE>That's enough.<BR><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; "><DIV style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.3333px; "> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.3333px; ">BTW, we only have a 20' by 10' booth - so "all of the above" won't be a real option.</SPAN><SPAN contenteditable="false" style="DISPLAY: inline-block; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.3333px; "></SPAN><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.3333px; "> Feel free to respond privately or here on the list - or call me if you want.</SPAN></DIV><DIV style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.3333px; "> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.3333px; ">Thank you in advance for your kind responses,</SPAN></DIV></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE>You're welcome. This is advice I've followed and had big success with.<BR><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; "><DIV style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.3333px; "> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.3333px; ">Rich Galassini</SPAN></DIV><DIV style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.3333px; ">Cunningham Piano Co.</SPAN></DIV><DIV style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.3333px; ">(215) 991-0834 (direct line)</SPAN></DIV></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>David Andersen<BR><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; "><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>