<HTML>In a message dated 2/15/2002 12:44:41 PM Eastern Standard Time, RNossaman@KSCABLE.com writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">I'm curious. Are there ever requests from visiting musicians for a cello that they can hang hardware on and beat with a mallet? Or a bassoon they can fill with soap solution to blow bubbles during a performance? Seems only fair.</BLOCKQUOTE> Please check out Gardner Read's Contemporary Instrumental Techniques.  You will find that the piano isn't the only one who is altered Laurie</HTML>