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<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial color=#008000>Alica,</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial color=#008000>Thanks for the
reply.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial color=#008000>Three years is certainly some
experience and it's nice to hear that you're a guild
member.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial color=#008000>I'll suggest with the kindest of
intentions that saying "Samick is crap" is not a small
judgement.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial color=#008000> Turning down the
volume on catagorical condemnations of techniques and manufacturers will do
wonders on endearing yourself to our little club.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial color=#008000>Perhaps we will meet at a future
seminar-convention.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial color=#008000>Best wishes,</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial color=#008000> Tom --with a last
name ,what's yours?---Driscoll</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial color=#008000>P.S.,</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial color=#008000> I'll break my own
rule cause I'm 34 years in . Pin-tite is a block killer and it takes longer than
three years for the damage to show. <G></FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT face=Arial color=#008000></FONT></STRONG><BR></DIV>As I
have already said I spent a good time with different Samick pianos, some
privately owned and some I was trying while searching for "the piano".. So
maybe perhaps my experience with them doesnt stand out as much as with most
experienced technicians but I think for my age, and as a pianist I've got
enough to give a small judgement on them. <BR>I am a tech, new? Not at all,
I've been servicing pians for 3 years myself, but I grew up in the house with
a technician/builder of pianos (my grandmother) so I'm well aquainted with
what a piano actually is.<BR>Guild member
yes.<BR> <BR> <BR>Alicia<BR><BR><BR>
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