<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2668" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: = Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=rol= e_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV>Do I assume that you are referring to newish K's?  I have only one= on my books  (Hamburg) and it is  ok to tune but terri= ble as a piano.  BUT what about its 'sister' piano named after a famous cit= y in the US!   I have four (uprights) in my music college and have= basically declared them un-tunable. The pin/plank relationship is one of the= worst I have ever come across.  I can't work out if it is the pins= made of compressed rubber or the plank!  It seems almost impossible to set/settle the pin and string, with the inevitable result of tuning instability.  There is awful deadness of tone in different registers an= d I basically feel that these pianos are a real confidence trick. Do you guys in= Europe have to suffer them?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Richard</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>