Gary, I met Guy Nichols (Las Cruces, NM) at the Texas State Association 2001 PTG Seminar in October. I believe he works for SAMA. He held a grand piano action handling mini-tech class, and it was excellent. He showed us this thing they do with an aluminum doorstop threshold to handle grand hammers and to lubricate bushings and centerpins. It was amazing! He discussed the economy of motion they try to use in their rebuilding shops to make them more efficient, which saves them time and saves their customers $$$, while doing a very complete job. Although I cannot personally vouch for the quality of their finished product because I haven't seen one of SAMA's rebuilds, but if Guy Nichols is typical of their techs, then I would submit that SAMA would be worth considering. (Look him up in the PTG Directory) Greg Boles Denham Springs, LA</HTML>