<HTML><HEAD> <META charset=US-ASCII http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1106" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff"> <DIV>Greetings,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>          Has notheing to do with if you play or not ....Here's my definintion....its when you go to some customer's pianos and they tell you that they have had them tuned every year (or two) and the piano is pretty well in tune proportionally, as far as octaves go, and not <EM>terribly</EM> horrible unisons (or just getting horrible), then you strike the fork and fine the darn thing is 60 cents FLAT...by that reellllly burns me up! If I look at the bridges and feel the tuning pin torque, and they are bad i.e. loose, super cracked bridges, I can somewhat forgive it, but more times than not, there's just <EM>no</EM> excuse. </DIV> <DIV>Then I can tell it was tooned by a tooner</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Julia</DIV> <DIV>Reading, PA</DIV><BR><BR><BR><DIV><FONT style="color: black; font: normal 10pt ARIAL, SAN-SERIF;"><HR style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px">See what's free at <A title="http://www.aol.com?ncid=AOLAOF00020000000503" href="http://www.aol.com?ncid=AOLAOF00020000000503" target="_blank">AOL.com</A>. </FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>