<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=windows-1252"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1400" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello List - and Conrad H</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>You mentioned: "<FONT face="Times New = Roman" size=3>/Lindner" in your list.</FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV>Please don't! This is the worst ever imaginable bit of hardware. = Made in Shannon, Ireland, with hollow plastic keys, flat spring "balance pins" = plastic and aluminum action parts in a MDF box. The plastic was about 20 = years before its time and breaks down. The frame is welded hollow steel = bar.  The action frame was pressed steel with a catch at each end to release it = from the piano. The action parts were held into the extruded alloy frame by = plastic press-fit parts which break as soon as you touch them. The keys are = likewise held in to the metal key-frame - a frame which, on removal of a large = bolt at either end, folds down into the base of the upright version. It is = strung vertically with two strings-per-note. When the firm went bust in the 60s = the work-force was paid off in redundant pianos - so I heard.</DIV> <DIV>I never, ever, want to see one again. Ever. Never. N'ever. = Non...!</DIV> <DIV>Regards from a fading day in Sussex</DIV> <DIV>Michael G (UK) ever. never....</DIV></BODY></HTML>