<HTML>In a message dated 8/29/02 12:26:34 PM Eastern Daylight Time, joegarrett@earthlink.net writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Some of you who haven't even taken a piano COMPLETELY apart are casting dispersions.</BLOCKQUOTE> Hey, Joe, My dictionary says "dispersion" is "breaking up and scattering in all directions."  I agree that it is hard for anyone who has not taken a piano apart to disperse the pieces.  Pianos are tough.  Or perhaps you were speaking of the brittle castings... but that's another thread. Then there is "aspersion:"  a damaging or disparaging remark; slander; innuendo.  "Sticks and stones may break my bones... Bill Maxim, RPT Maxim Piano Service Columbia, SC </HTML>