<!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 5.50.4134.600" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT color=#000080>As I said, sure fooled me. Have you ever = considered a career in marketing? This sort of writing should get you far in at least = one industry I can think of....</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000080></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000080>Nicely done.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000080></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000080>Del</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000080></FONT> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = BORDER-LEFT: #000080 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=LarryinAtlanta@AOL.COM href="mailto:LarryinAtlanta@AOL.COM">LarryinAtlanta@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> August 23, 2002 3:27 = PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Walter purchases = Langer Actions</DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#000080></FONT><BR></DIV><FONT = face=arial,helvetica><FONT lang=0 style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" face=Arial = color=#000000 size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF"><BR>I guess I need to give everyone the = background on this. The fact that Walter bought Langer is true of course. That said, the = rest of it was written to make a point on another messageboard. That board had = just gone through a siege if you will, of a couple of Young Chang salesmen = trying to claim YC pianos were "hand built", comparing them to Steinway = because JP used to work at Steinway, etc. Every post they wrote read just as = warped as the one quoted above that I wrote. One salesman in particular was = extremely slick at wording statements very subtley to make the reader draw = conclusions he wanted but without ever actually saying it, just implying things = that caused a leap of logic, such as the one in my post quoted above that = was designed to make the uninformed reader assume that Bosendorfer used = Langer actions. His constant posting of slanted and incorrect information was = causing great confusion among the members of the board, mostly made up of = people shopping for a piano trying! to find information.<BR><BR>The post I = wrote quoted above was done to show those uninformed readers just how = misleading sales spin can be written, or said on the sales floor. It was written = to read about this issue in the style the YC was being presented to them by = the other salesman. Mr, Bremmer didn't copy the post right after that one where = it was explained to the readers how to decipher the sales spin in the post, = and where the true facts were given. I don't fault him for that, but I felt I = must explain it so no one here, in the absense of the context in which it = was written being included also, will think I meant any of that stuff. I = am fully aware that it was all pure spin, lies, and misrepresentations. That = was the point. By doing it this way, and then in the very next post explaining = where the spin and incorrect information is in the post, readers of that = board learned a little about the kind of spin they were being fed. And yes, = I know about all those makers Del, and that the statement in the la! st = sentence was a blatant lie. <BR><BR>I hope that explains the reason the post was = written the way it was.<BR><BR>Larry Fletcher<BR>Atlanta Chapter<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></FONT></BODY></HTML>