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<div style="color: navy; font-size: 10pt; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', sans-serif; clear: both; "><font size="1" color="royalblue"><b><font face="Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, Serif"><font color="black"><font color="mediumblue" face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">Dale Erwin R.P.T.<br>
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<div id="AOLMsgPart_0_3e36d956-a9aa-4344-addf-8d3fde3a46f9" style="margin: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><pre style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 9pt; font-family: Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; "><tt>Which incredible amounts of money are those, Dale? Here in the land of
300,000 people, depressed aircraft industry driven, that ain't
happening. You folks within an hours drive of 4 million people will
never get that one - ever.</tt></pre><pre><tt><font face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"> That </span><span style="font-size: 11.818181991577148px;">comment</span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"> was primarily I hope for the long ears listening from ........</span></font></tt></pre><pre><tt><font face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"> But...Over a </span><span style="font-size: 11.818181991577148px;">lifetime</span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"> of repairing these pianos, it adds up. And </span><span style="font-size: 11.818181991577148px;">you are</span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"> correct the geographic/demographic</span></font></tt></pre><pre><tt><font face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"> difference is huge. I'm 100 miles from 4 plus million folks in the bay area and 300 miles from 12 million in L.A</span></font></tt></pre><pre><tt><span style="font-size: 9pt;">a<font face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">nd the pianos come from farther away. </font>
> They have provided us with a very special opportunity to develop our
> own research and design capabilities & in all sincerity...I am
> grateful for this.
Bullshit. </span><font face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Ok, whatever </span><span style="font-size: 11.818181991577148px;">and</span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"> make money at it? </span></font></tt></pre><pre><tt><span style="font-size: 9pt;">There are plenty of other pianos with the same problems.</span></tt></pre><pre><tt><font face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"> And no one pays us to repair them </span><span style="font-size: 11.818181991577148px;">although</span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"> we are </span><span style="font-size: 11.818181991577148px;">rebuilding</span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"> a </span><span style="font-size: 11.818181991577148px;">schiller</span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"> upright from Vegas </span><span style="font-size: 11.818181991577148px;">and</span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"> some Masons From San Diego</span></font></tt></pre><pre><tt><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><font face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif"> </font> It's
just the public's and technicians snob attitude connecting to Steinway's
snob attitude that makes Steinway the most improved make.</span></tt></pre><pre><tt><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><font face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif"> . It is what it is. The name draws money. Money gives opportunity. Hey... I didn't make the rules.</font></span></tt></pre><pre><tt><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; "> Are you saying I'm a snob? If so Then you don't know me.</span><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><font face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif"><br>
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> You dislike their behavior
> toward you and you dislike them but, they feed you anyway.</span></tt></pre><pre><tt><font face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">I dislike their attitude toward me/us not them personally. We're saying the same </span><span style="font-size: 11.818181991577148px;">thing</span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">.</span></font><span style="font-size: 9pt;">
Wrong. I don't dislike them, but rather their attitude that a
demonstrably deficient series of design decisions make the best piano in
the world. And they sure as hell aren't feeding me.</span><font face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif" style="font-size: 9pt; "> </font></tt></pre><pre><tt><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><font face="Comic Sans MS, sans-serif">Understood-Dale</font></span></tt></pre><pre><tt><span style="font-size: 9pt;">
Ron N
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