<font color='black' size='2' face='Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'> <div></div> <div style="color: black; font-family: arial,helvetica; font-size: 10pt;"><blockquote style="padding-left: 3px; border-left-color: blue; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid;"><pre><tt>But, have the Asian entry level pianos taken a higher road? Not the ones I've dealt with...grands no less...big time PSOs.</tt></pre></blockquote></div> <div> </div> <div>Jim</div> <div> </div> <div>I beg to disagree. Although not the best pianos out there, in my opinion the pianos coming out of Asia now are much better than the crap that came out of North Carolina and Memphis back in the 80's. Maybe 20 years ago the Asian pianos were bad, but for the last couple of years the quality is pretty good.  </div> <div> </div> <div>Wim </div> <div></div> <div style="clear: both;"> <div> </div> </div> <div></div> <div></div> <div style="color: black; font-family: arial,helvetica; font-size: 10pt;">-----Original Message-----<br> From: Jim Ialeggio <jim@grandpianosolutions.com><br> To: pianotech <pianotech@ptg.org><br> Sent: Thu, Sep 27, 2012 2:03 am<br> Subject: [pianotech] pulley key...<br> <br> <div style="margin: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" id="AOLMsgPart_0_d4717045-13a6-4ac9-aac7-2ce1212744dd"> <pre style="font-size: 9pt;"><tt>Del said: <The part that bothers me about this is that several somebodies knew about this during production and still it went through... <...And we wonder just why America lost its piano manufacturing companies to offshore competition. These instruments often give me a cynicism attack. Nobody gave a s...t at any point in the process, because the point was to produce something that looked like a piano as cheaply as possible and turn a profit...music, or the enjoyment of people playing these things never entered the design equation. But, have the Asian entry level pianos taken a higher road? Not the ones I've dealt with...grands no less...big time PSOs. They are doing the same bloody thing, because it doesn't have to be a piano to relieve a customer with limited funds of their cash...it just has to look like it ought'a be a piano to sell it. Does it have to make enjoyable music...heck no...chirst, music has no monetary value anyway...why bother... Cynically yours, Jim Ialeggio -- Jim Ialeggio <a href="mailto:jim@grandpianosolutions.com">jim@grandpianosolutions.com</a> 978 425-9026 Shirley Center, MA </tt></pre> </div>  </div> </font>