<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16735" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bottomMargin=7 bgColor=#ffffff leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7> <DIV>Not sure I follow your point, Julia. Mine is that people will seek out and pay for quality in tough economic times, at least as evidenced in my anecdotal example.</DIV> <DIV>Fenton</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=KeyKat88@aol.com href="mailto:KeyKat88@aol.com">KeyKat88@aol.com</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech@ptg.org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, October 16, 2008 8:45 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: the economy</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 10/9/2008 12:21:04 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, <A href="mailto:fmurray@cruzio.com">fmurray@cruzio.com</A> writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have a friend that owns a very high end bakery, over 100 employees in his single location, a 30 foot display with $90. cakes, he says despite rising costs on everything and him trying to hold the line business is block buster.</FONT></FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Yep!... Thaarr ya go!.... I guess!  A CEO who "earns" $50 million a year, <EM>won't</EM> bake their own cake!  So does this mean we should raise tuning prices to say.. $1000 for a tuning? </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Julia</DIV></FONT><BR><BR><BR> <DIV class=aol_ad_footer id=dbf406d0c61a5100c02477f5bba710bd><FONT style="FONT: 10pt ARIAL, SAN-SERIF; COLOR: black"> <HR style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px"> New <B>MapQuest Local</B> shows what's happening at your destination. Dining, Movies, Events, News & more. <A href="http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100000075x1211031713x1200669822/aol?redir=http://local.mapquest.com/?ncid=emlcntnew00000002">Try it out! </A></FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>