<!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 6.00.6000.17102" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>List</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>As many of you know, my other life is that of a professional clarinetists and conductor.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I lease  studio space at a music school which was nice enough  to include a Yamaha electric keyboard to assist in my teaching. I used this for the better part of this past year.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The school announced last month that a Baldwin spinet was being donated to the school and that my studio was going to be recepient of the gift.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Turns out I knew the piano well as it belonged to a long time client of mine. This was one of the horribles pinets that Baldwin was pumping out in the 90's. False beats everywhere, overally hard gromets, the list goes on and on.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>That all being said, I'm hear to say as a testimonial, that this bottom of the barrel spinets is like a cadilac compared to the sound of that keyboard.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>All things being relative, this experience reminded me of  how a decent electric keyboard  is still a far cry from the entry level spinets.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Of course there are some keyboards which are really quite nice. But for the run of the mill keyboard, not even a close call as to which sounds better.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Tom Servinsky</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>