<HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1251"> <META content="MSHTML 5.50.4134.100" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <P> <DIV></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"> <DIV><FONT size=2>I wrote;</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>"I agree. For that market, Yamaha makes the S6 & S4 grands.  It's a </FONT><FONT size=2>warmer sounding piano.  For every "S" piano we sell, we sell about a </FONT><FONT size=2>gazillion of the more aggressive (?) sounding "G" and "C" types.   As I </FONT><FONT size=2>write this I hear a great, booming voice proclaiming "The Market Has </FONT><FONT size=2>Spoken"!   But hey! That's only ONE of the voices I periodically hear, </FONT><FONT size=2>some of them are frequently mistaken, and maybe this one is too."</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Dale replied;</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>"Are you saying that I might be the booming voice referred to above and </FONT><FONT size=2>that I might be mistaken? Something was lost in the translation. If your answer</FONT><FONT size=2> is yes how can my (and others)xpeireince be mistaken if it is </FONT><FONT size=2>indeed  our collective experience. Am I missing something or are those </FONT><FONT size=2>last four concert tunings making me groggy? I'm curious how many S type </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>pianos are made and sold each year?"</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>My snappy retort;</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Nah, Dale, you aren't the booming voice I was referring to.  What I was trying to say in a light-hearted way  (and what I may be mistaken about) is that since there is a wide range of pianos to choose from, new, used, mellow, bright, and everything in between, I assume that folks are buying what they want.  And what most people are buying are pianos with lotsa volume and a bright sound. So I conclude that's what most people want.  Capitalism in action.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>As to the numbers of "S" series pianos Yamaha sells, I already told you, one is sold for every gazillion of everything else.....  'Nother words, I don't know...not enough, though.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>  </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV></FONT>Mark Wisner</DIV></DIV> <DIV><A href="mailto:mwissner@earthlink.net">mwissner@earthlink.net</A></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <P></P></BODY></HTML>