<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2600.0" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi Wim,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>It is my understanding thet most of = their sales are to Europe.  Europe is their target market. At least that is what = they told me when I toured the factory several years ago.</FONT></DIV> <DIV>Joe Goss<BR><A href="mailto:imatunr@srvinet.com">imatunr@srvinet.com</A><BR><A href="http://www.mothergoosetools.com">www.mothergoosetools.com</A></DI= V> <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=Wimblees@AOL.COM = href="mailto:Wimblees@AOL.COM">Wimblees@AOL.COM</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> Wednesday, June 12, 2002 = 8:04 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Astin-Weight</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT size=2>I tuned a = couple of them over the years. There was a dealer in St. Louis who sold them, = but he went out of business about 15 years ago, and no one took up the = franchise. <BR><BR>It would seem to me that if they wanted to promote their = instrument, they would do a little more advertising, I never hear about the = company, not even in the Journal. <BR><BR>Anyone in Utah familiar with this company = enough to give us some insight? <BR><BR>Wim = </FONT></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>