<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jun 25, 2007, at 9:06 AM, <A href="mailto:b98tu@t-online.de">b98tu@t-online.de</A> wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><FONT style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" size="2"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">A big applause from germany for your great event.</DIV><BR><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I enjoyed the convention very much and be happy of having met many of the list here "alive". </DIV><BR><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">It was great to get the honour to start Kent Swafford´s idea of the "pianotech live" meeting.</DIV><BR><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Special greetings to Kent Swafford,</DIV><BR><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">and (in alphabetic order) David Andersen, Rick Baldassin, Joe Garrett.</DIV><BR><BR><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">best regards,</DIV><BR><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Bernhard Stopper</DIV></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>Special greetings right back at ya, Bernhard. The Fazioli suite was on my floor (the 36th) at the Hyatt; on Saturday, after my 6-hour marathon of teaching, I followed an impulse to turn right into the Fazioli suite rather than left into my room, and what I found was magnificent: a 6'4" piano, which I had played and enjoyed on Thursday, was now luminously beautiful; I played a little, and immediately asked some guy there who had tuned it; he pointed to you, hunched over a computer with Rick Baldassin in the corner of the room. I played some more; this piano was tuned in a manner extremely close to my protocol and stretch; it sounded, to me, like a million bucks. My only quibble---and a teeny one, at that---was the slight imperfections in the unisons, but the tuning was awesome. Then, as is my wont, I expressed my satisfaction to you rather joyfully and forcefully---hope I didn't freak you out with my enthusiasm, brother.</DIV><DIV>That was one great piano tuning, Mr. Stopper. Thank you.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>xoxxoDavid A.</DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>