<html> <body> Alan, <x-tab>        </x-tab>Alright, you first!   All kidding aside that kind of thinking is what this industry needs more of for sure!! Greg Newell At 10:34 AM 5/1/2003, you wrote: <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>G= od hates mobile homes, that much is obvious.   Our space research stuff is amazing, isn't it? It's all the more impressive if you ponder the incredible distances involved and how narrow the angles are to put something on the right course--the tiniest error and, whoosh, your mars shot is headed for deep space.   Hey. The necessity for light-weight, less-power-hungry, and more dependable electronics for space vehicles was the impetus for development of integrated circuits and the microminiaturization that has made all our computers and consumer electronic wonders possible.   So. Could they do the same for the piano? A new space-age plate material (pre-stressed Microfibrolated Aluminum Dioxide impregnated polycarbonate resin might work) that only weighs 7 ounces, high tension boron-fiber strings, action parts made of hyper-spherical porated polyacrylics, wool from really skinny sheep, that sort of thing ... get the whole piano weight down to, say, 2 lbs. Let's get working on it!   Alan Barnard Salem, MO <dl> <dd>-----Original Message----- <dd>From: pianotech-bounces@ptg.org [<a href="mailto:pianotech-bounces@ptg.org" eudora="autourl">mailto:pian= otech-bounces@ptg.org</a>]On Behalf Of Nichols <dd>Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2003 8:59 AM <dd>To: Pianotech <dd>Subject: Re: OT -- Way, WAY Off Topic! <dd>At 09:46 AM 4/29/2003 -0700, you wrote: <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite> <dd>A belated farwell... <dd>  <dd>...to Pioneer 10, the little spacecraft that could. Originally sent out to the Asteroid belt and then on to Jupiter. It was the first spacecraft to travel through the Asteroid belt and the first to make direct obversations and close-up photographs of Jupiter.</blockquote> <dd>That's the one that got the cool photos of the giant perpetual tornado. Although there was no conclusive proof of life, at least we know they have mobile home parks! <dd>Guy </dl> --- Checked by AVG anti-virus system (<a href="http://www.grisoft.com/"= eudora="autourl">http://www.grisoft.com</a>). Version: 6.0.474 / Virus Database: 272 - Release Date: 4/18/2003</blockquote> <x-sigsep></x-sigsep> Greg Newell Greg's piano Forté <a href="mailto:gnewell@ameritech.net"= eudora="autourl">mailto:gnewell@ameritech.net</a></body> </html>