<!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 6.00.6000.16608" 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>Hi List,</DIV> <DIV>I think that I may have posted before on the Lindner piano.  We had a major infestation here in UK.  However, it has to be said that, in my experience, the tuning would usually stand like a rock and the later ones with wooden keys were not bad value.  </DIV> <DIV>I still have not come across anyone who saw the Lindner Grand however.  Design- wise I think this could have had a future.  Although straight-strung, it had a conventional grand action and none of the plastic or aluminiunm parts like the upright.   The case design was really super in my opinion, in that it had a 'straight'  curved side  like some harpsichords, a square tail, and was in a very light wood.  The whole thing was supported on a central black steel pedestal which incorporated the pedals.  I would like to see a picture of one again since I only worked on one of them.  Anyone out there seen one?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>ric</DIV></FONT> </BODY></HTML>