<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en"> <html> Grin... from what I can tell... then Wayne is just par for the course. If there's one thing one learns fast in this buisness... its that every manufacturer is convinced they are doing things far better most everyone else. Seems to be the way the game is played.  Some kind of survivilist thingy me thinks. I did a stint on the fringes of University Science fundings... was crew on the University of Washingtons oceanigraphic research ship, MS Thompson some years back... grin.. you shoulda heard some of the stories some of the visiting  heads of reasearch projects had to say about their colleagues.... and they we think Piano Folks are bad... :):) Cheers... and have a good weekend. RicB   Kerry Cooper wrote: <blockquote TYPE=CITE>David, Even here in Australia where the Stuart piano is made, it is very hard for a technician who is not one of Wayne's fold to have a good look at his piano. We are deemed to be below him. He has stated that there is only a handful of tuners who are capable of servicing a Stuart piano (and he wonders why he is not proclaimed as the saviour of the piano industry in Australia). He refers to Ron O as a pretender who is playing on the fringes of piano manufacturing. I will leave it there Kerry Cooper   <a href="https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives"></a> </blockquote> -- Richard Brekne RPT, N.P.T.F. UiB, Bergen, Norway <A HREF="mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no">mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no</A> <A HREF="http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html">http://home.broadpark.no/~rbrekne/ricmain.html</A> <A HREF="http://www.hf.uib.no/grieg/personer/cv_RB.html">http://www.hf.uib.no/grieg/personer/cv_RB.html</A>  </html>