<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16587" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV> <DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>  JD</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>  Sorry mate.  It was the your" <STRONG>You all change soundboards like sparking plugs</STRONG>" comment that got me going. </FONT></DIV> <DIV>  I appreciate your experience & expertise as well as the thoroughly British veiw point</DIV> <DIV>  regards</DIV> <DIV>   Dale</DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Dale, you've got the wrong end of the stick!  As I wrote in my reply <BR>to David Love, I am all for putting in a new soundboard if the value <BR>of the piano warrants it and I wish there were a thriving tradition <BR>of proper restoration in England.  I am not too familiar with <BR>practices in neighboring European countries but they'd have a job to <BR>beat compete for low quality with English standards today, which is a <BR>great shame.<BR><BR><BR>JD</FONT></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></FONT><BR><BR><BR><DIV><FONT style="color: black; font: normal 10pt ARIAL, SAN-SERIF;"><HR style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px">Who's never won? <A title="http://music.aol.com/grammys/pictures/never-won-a-grammy?NCID=aolcmp00300000002548" href="http://music.aol.com/grammys/pictures/never-won-a-grammy?NCID=aolcmp00300000002548" target="_blank">Biggest Grammy Award surprises of all time on AOL Music.</A></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>