<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" = http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2614.3500" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: = 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"> <P>On the other hand, "congratulate them on the finest purchase = they've ever made"?  How can one justify that?  There's got to be a = middle road somewhere.  Let's find it. <P>Regards , Clyde <P>       Clyde, <P>          I agree that = statement was a bit over the top, but when compared to all the other = consumer goods purchased over a lifetime, this little piano could have provided = more enjoyment and enrichment than any other item in the house. Nine hundred dollars spent forty five years ago --- Thats twenty bucks = a year ! <P>     We recently had a discussion about the = piano as investment. All the cars , couches and T.V.'s are long gone. Tell me = what compares to this shiny little thing, false beats and all . <P>       Tom Driscoll</P></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>