<HTML>In a message dated 5/15/0= 3 3:30:53 AM Pacific Daylight Time, cedel@supernet.com writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-= LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px"> So they're making Henry F. Miller pianos again!  I used to tune a c= ouple carefully built old uprights, and I tune at least one cheap 1960s era = spinet by the same name.  Now they're entry level Chinese.  What's= in a name?  Not much, when it comes to pianos.  Just an observati= on, and not a new one, obviously.</BLOCKQUOTE> Clyde, They are Pearl River pianos, at least the ones that I've seen are. &nbsp= ;I do believe that Sherman-Clay owns the name and has them built by whicheve= r Chinese factory gives them the best deal. When I asked my jazz piano playing friend what kind of piano she was pla= ying at her gig, she said, "I don't know, it's a Harry Potter, or something = like that...."  It was a Henry F. Miller.  That's the one with the= excessively heavy action that for which I was looking for a quick and non-p= ermanent remedy(it's a rental).   While I don't think they're the greatest pianos in the world, they are m= any steps up from the Aeolian garbage from the 60s and 70s that bore that na= me. Dave Stahl</HTML>