<!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 5.50.4913.1100" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>    All I can say is = what I told the customer the last time I heard the old line about how the salesman told = them that the piano was "self tuning."</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>    "That's true, but in = order to get it back in tune, you have to play it backwards, and then hit the = brakes HARD!"</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: = black"><B>From:</B> <A title=kswafford@earthlink.net = href="mailto:kswafford@earthlink.net">Kent Swafford</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A = title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">pianotech list</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, February 25, 2002 = 2:18 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Self Tuning Piano System</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV>On 2/25/02 1:13 PM, "<A href="mailto:Billbrpt@AOL.COM">Billbrpt@AOL.COM</A>" <<A href="mailto:Billbrpt@AOL.COM">Billbrpt@AOL.COM</A>> = wrote:<BR><BR>> QRS Music Technologies acquired the rights to develop this unique technology<BR>> from the inventor, Don A. Gilmore, Kansas City, Missouri.<BR><BR>Conversations between inventor and piano tech have = been, uh, short. Inventor<BR>wanted to talk about how simple this was as an = engineering problem. Tech<BR>wanted to talk about the difficulties of calculating = a tuning, choosing<BR>partials at which to tune, and setting the = strings. No common ground.<BR>Believe it when you hear it.<BR><BR>Kent</BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>