<div dir="ltr">David,<div>I don't quite understand your question regarding the "morality of the color Red".  </div><div>Why the color red? Possible answers: Flamboyance? Attention grabbing? Piggybacking on the U2 - red iPod that donates 10% of the sale to (I think) AIDs research (or some such Worthy Cause)?</div> <div><br></div><div>And then there's cultural differences in color identification, art, and furniture taste. Red, one of the "Five Phases" (aka Five Elements) in Chinese philosophy/religion since the Han Dynasty (~200 BC - 200 AD). Cinnabar, associated with alchemical quests by Taoists for eternal life, etc. </div> <div>I'm sure there are billions of eyes/minds who would see it as just dandy in a huge room, with massive red dyed leather furniture, red lacquer tables, oxblood red ceramic pieces, red silk hangings. etc. etc. And there's probably several thousand Chinese millionaires and billionaires who may be tempted to make the purchase ... just because they can.  </div> <div>What did you think of the Hailun piano case that Frank Emerson posted several weeks ago? I usually find art case pianos rather ugly in photographs but stunning person.</div><div><br></div><div>Just rambling back at you,</div> <div>Patrick Draine</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 10:28 AM, David Skolnik <<a href="mailto:davidskolnik@optonline.net">davidskolnik@optonline.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> <div><br><br> So, what should we do with a red Steinway D?<br></div></blockquote></div></div></div>