<HTML>In a message dated 9/8/02 8:38:36 AM Eastern Daylight Time, mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">My wife and I both had the same thought of setting a nice old cello in the corner for decoration - an old one of very little value (definately less than $100).  Then this scary thought came over me: Am I just like them (that buy cheap grands for decoration)?</BLOCKQUOTE> Yes, but so am I though perhaps on a different level.  Our Foerster upright that we bought in Germany shortly after our wedding in 1965 decorates our den.  ....hasn't been tuned in..........  I once complained to my wife that no one writes me a check for tuning it.  Whereupon she offered to write me a check.  Somehow that didn't seem the same. Bill Maxim, RPT Maxim Piano Service Columbia, SC </HTML>