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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Good on you Don. Enjoyed your short seminar
here last fall.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Carl / Winnipeg</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=donmannino@ca.rr.com href="mailto:donmannino@ca.rr.com">Don
Mannino</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotuner@embarqmail.com
href="mailto:pianotuner@embarqmail.com">pianotuner@embarqmail.com</A> ; <A
title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech List</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, December 05, 2007 11:11
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: K Kawai</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Alan,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>All Kawai grands say K. Kawai, after Koichi
Kawai, the company founder way back when. Uprights say simply
Kawai.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Of course, buying a 5'6" - ish Kawai is always
preferred to any other brand . . . .</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>:-)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Don Mannino</FONT></DIV>
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href="mailto:pianotuner@embarqmail.com">Alan Barnard</A> </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, December 05, 2007 3:23
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> K Kawai</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>This will sound ridiculous, but please bear in mind that I
live in the rural Ozarks where old Gulbransens go to die ... or AFTER they
are dead, actually. I don't see a lot of quality pianos, here.<BR><BR>Is K.
Kawai the same as Kawai? <BR><BR>If purchasing a new 56-foot-ish grand, what
comments have ye regarding Kawai vs. Yamaha?<BR><BR>Alan Barnard<BR>Salem,
MO<BR></BLOCKQUOTE>
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