<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD><TITLE></TITLE> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.3157" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><EM>"We had been invited to dinner the other evening, at which dinner was a fellow piano technician....."</EM></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>I hear you need to tenderize technicians or else they can be pretty tough. How was your technician prepared? I mean, I've heard of a prepared piano and all.........   ;-)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>anon</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>We had been invited to dinner the other evening, at which dinner was a fellow piano technician who made the following comment, "There is no reasonable justification for any tuner<I> not</I> to use an ETD in the 21st Century."  </FONT></DIV> <P><FONT face=Arial size=2>SNIP  </FONT></P> <P><FONT face=Arial size=2>les bartlett</FONT> </P></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>