<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>In a message dated 5/31/01 1:31:16 PM Central Daylight Time,
<BR>rbrekne@broadpark.no (Richard Brekne) writes:
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<BR><BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">But really folks... the Baldwin you all knew and
<BR>remember with fondness has really been pretty much gone for a good while
<BR>already.</BLOCKQUOTE>
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<BR>A colleague in my Chapter said it all began with Liberace's demise. When I
<BR>read that one of the reasons for the bankruptcy filing was due to
<BR>"disproportionate severance agreements", I thought it meant that the woman
<BR>who had single handedly ruined the company had managed to take off with her
<BR>million dollar prize for doing so.
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<BR>I hope that what others have suggested, the bankruptcy filing means she won't
<BR>get that money, not that she took it and left everyone else in the company
<BR>holding the bag.
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<BR>I hope the company survives, one way or the other and continues to produce a
<BR>good, American style and quality piano. What the piano industry does not
<BR>need is a dealer who flies off the handle like the guy who wrote the A**hole
<BR>post.
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<BR>Bill Bremmer RPT
<BR>Madison, Wisconsin</FONT></HTML>