<HTML><BODY STYLE="font:10pt verdana; border:none;"><DIV>Hi Mark </DIV>=
<DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> Here is that post again. =
Did you repost it or what is going on? As you said in a previous post, ho=
w does this one post keep getting posted. I think this post has to get an=
award for the most repost in any calender year . Anyway ,somebody just S=
TOP IT ALREADY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE =
style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-=
LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Ari=
al">----- Original Message -----</DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4;=
FONT: 10pt Arial; COLOR: black"><B>From:</B> Mark Wisner</DIV> <DIV styl=
e="FONT: 10pt Arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, November 17, 2001 1:29 PM</=
DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial"><B>To:</B> pianotech</DIV> <DIV styl=
e="FONT: 10pt Arial"><B>Subject:</B> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <META con=
tent="MSHTML 5.50.4134.100" name=GENERATOR> <P> <DIV></DIV> <DIV><FON=
T face="Comic Sans MS"> <DIV><FONT size=2>I wrote;</FONT></DIV> <DIV>=
<FONT size=2>"I agree. For that market, Yamaha makes the S6 & S4 gr=
ands. It's a </FONT><FONT size=2>warmer sounding piano. =
; For every "S" piano we sell, we sell about a </FONT><FONT size=2=
>gazillion of the more aggressive (?) sounding "G" and "C" types. &n=
bsp; As I </FONT><FONT size=2>write this I hear a great, booming voice =
proclaiming "The Market Has </FONT><FONT size=2>Spoken"! Bu=
t hey! That's only ONE of the voices I periodically hear, </FONT><FONT si=
ze=2>some of them are frequently mistaken, and maybe this one is too."<=
/FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>=
Dale replied;</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>"Are you saying that I mig=
ht be the booming voice referred to above and </FONT><FONT size=2>that =
I might be mistaken? Something was lost in the translation. If your answe=
r</FONT><FONT size=2> is yes how can my (and others)xpeireince be mista=
ken if it is </FONT><FONT size=2>indeed our collective exper=
ience. Am I missing something or are those </FONT><FONT size=2>last fou=
r concert tunings making me groggy? I'm curious how many S type </FONT></=
DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>pianos are made and sold each year?"</FONT></DIV=
> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>My snappy r=
etort;</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Nah, Dale, you aren't the booming=
voice I was referring to. What I was trying to say in a light-hear=
ted way (and what I may be mistaken about) is that since there=
is a wide range of pianos to choose from, new, used, mellow, b=
right, and everything in between, I assume that folks are buying what the=
y want. And what most people are buying are pianos with lotsa =
volume and a bright sound. So I conclude that's what most people want.&nb=
sp; Capitalism in action.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>As to the numb=
ers of "S" series pianos Yamaha sells, I already told you,=
one is sold for every gazillion of everything else..... 'Noth=
er words, I don't know...not enough, though.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=
=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2> </FONT></DIV> <D=
IV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV></FONT>Mark Wisner</DIV></DIV>=
<DIV><A href="mailto:mwissner@earthlink.net">mwissner@earthlink.net</A=
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