<!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 6.00.2716.2200" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>    I, for one, am glad = that they're still in business. Just so long as they don't start making any of those = muddy sounding pianos with horribly inharmonic scales again. I can imagine = myself visiting the factory and saying something like; "Step away from the = piano and nobody gets hurt."  </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>    Somewhere I heard = someone say that they were also making coffins. I decided right then and there that = I would be cremated. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV>Kevin E. Ramsey<BR><A href="mailto:ramsey@extremezone.com">ramsey@extremezone.com</A></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: = black"><B>From:</B> <A title=dlbullock@att.net href="mailto:dlbullock@att.net">D.L. = Bullock</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A = title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:Pianotech@Ptg. Org">Pianotech@Ptg. Org</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, June 27, 2002 = 12:40 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Kimball is still in business</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV>Sorry guys, Kimball did not go out of business.  = They are still Wall<BR>Street's darling "Kimball International" the worlds = largest furniture<BR>manufacturer and owner of Bosendorffer pianos.  They = just did not want the<BR>hassle of messing with cheap pianos any = more.  I am sure the low quality of<BR>Kimball pianos in large part was = responsible for their dropping the Kimball<BR>factories into the dumpster as excess baggage.<BR><BR><BR>D.L. Bullock<BR><A href="http://www.thepianoworld.com">www.thepianoworld.com</A><BR>St. = Louis<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>