<HTML><HEAD> <META charset=US-ASCII http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; cha= rset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1400" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fffff= f"> <DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 5/12/2004 10:30:21 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Richard= .Brekne@grieg.uib.no writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue = 2px solid"><FONT face=Arial>much lacquer was needed, what amount of needli= ng was needed </FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV>Richard,</DIV> <DIV>The hammers were just hung yesterday and I gave them a play today. Noth= ing has been done to these hammers. I repeat nothing!</DIV> <DIV>The are simply marvelous. Beautiful warm, even tone right out of the bo= x. I'll keep everyone posted as hammer fitting and regulation start to take = shape. So far, I'm very impressed.</DIV> <DIV>Tom</DIV></BODY></HTML>