<HTML>In a message dated 6/6/02 5:20:14 PM Central Daylight Time, mfarrel2@tampabay.rr.com (Farrell) writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Just curious, have you ever tuned/serviced a "Grand" console/spinet? Truely an experience! I assume not if you say Whitney is at the bottom of the heap!   :-)</BLOCKQUOTE> You're right, Terry, there are much worse pianos than even the worst the Kimball made. <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">And this I can say after spending 6 hours today servicing a 1960s Aeolian spinet in a Missionary Baptist church downtown! 9 strings, regulation, pitch raise, tune. YIKES!  But the $$$ makes me  :-).</BLOCKQUOTE> Now you've got the right attitude!  Believe me, the experienced gained doing good work on this lesser instrument will pay off when you get the opportunity to work on the finest.  I have a place where I draw the line and there are instruments I really dread working on but I don't make a lifestyle out of griping about them.  They still fill out my schedule and thus contribute to my bottom line. Bill Bremmer RPT Madison, Wisconsin <A HREF="http://www.billbremmer.com/">Click here: -=w w w . b i l l b r e m m e r . c o m =-</A> </HTML>