<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <html><head><style type="text/css"></style><title>Re: Ray Charles played Overs' no. 003 in concert</title></head><body> <div>Richard Galassini wrote:</div> <div><br></div> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">I think I have tried some of Wyndham Eststes chardonnay. Is this possible? Do they export?</font></blockquote> <div><br></div> <div>Yes, Wyndham Estate is one of the larger Australian wine producing companies who export product.</div> <div><br></div> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">More importantly, when will YOU export?</font></blockquote> <div><br></div> <div>While piano no. 003 was enthusiastically received in Reno, we still have a lot to do here before we are ready to service the demands of an export market. There's no point in setting up a distribution network when we have very little production capacity. Last July when I returned from Reno, I was considering building six pianos during the 2002 year. However, various factors have lead to a reassessment of this plan, and now only two more of the current 225 pianos, which uses the Samick plate and rim, will be built. Three Australian tertiary music institutions are interested in no. 004, but it remains available at this time, and is currently priced at US$49,000 FOB. While I would prefer to place this piano locally at this time, all options will be considered. The plate and rim for the next two pianos have arrived, and while these were built quite closely to the revised specification list supplied, they were not made precisely to specification (communication is always a difficult with piano companies, since there is no common nomenclature). Fortunately, it will be possible to incorporate the refinements I had planned for these instruments relative to the specification of piano no. 003.</div> <div><br></div> <div>To answer your question Richard, I would like to be exporting instruments by 2004, and my preferred first representative would be a suitable dealer on the US west coast. The Californian market would seem to be particularly easy to supply for us since Korean Air run a freighter service to both Sydney and LA. When we took no. 003 to Reno it was back loaded to Seoul, then taken on to LA.</div> <div><br></div> <div>I am currently designing a 230 cm grand and a 280 cm concert grand. These pianos (with the exception of the keyboard, action, hammers and wire will be all-Australian made. The outer and inner rim will be made from a local southern Beech,<i> Nothofagus moorei</i>  (a remnant rain forest tree with an ADD of around 0.74 grams per cc and who's wood is fine and even and suitable for steam bending, These trees date back to the days of Gondwanaland - the ancient southern super-continent). A 185 grand piano, which at this stage will be the smallest grand piano we will produce, will be developed at a later stage (top elevation drawings of all three cases can be viewed at http://overspianos.com.au/cases.html ).</div> <div><br></div> <div>At this time, we have been concentrating on developing product awareness from within Australia.</div> <div><br></div> <div>Regards to all,</div> <div><br></div> <div>Ron O</div> <div><font face="Times" color="#000000">-- <br> </font></div> <div><font face="Times" color="#000000">       OVERS PIANOS</font></div> <div><font face="Times" color="#000000">Grand piano manufacturers</font><font color="#000000"></font></div> <div><font color="#000000">________________________<br> </font></div> <div><font face="Times" color="#000000">Web:   http://www.overspianos.com.au</font></div> <div><font face="Times" color="#000000">Email: mailto:ron@overspianos.com.au</font><font color="#000000"><br> ________________________</font></div> </body> </html>