<!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 6.00.2716.2200" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Tuned a little console today. Don't = know the date because Pierce is a little confusing on this brand and it's various = makers (looks like a 50's or 60's piano "Model 600", serial 321968 = ...</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Anyway the brand is Schmoller & = Mueller ... does that sound like two guys doing a Yiddish stand-up comedy = shtick, or what!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Actually not a bad little cheap piano. = Sounds strangely muffled as you play it, don't know why. Didn't notice it while = tuning, but while playing afterwards. Customer says it always sounded like that = ... </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Alan Barnard</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Always Something New in Salem, = MO</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>P.S. Oh, funny. I started to send this = and the built in spell checker wanted to change "Schmoller" to = "Schmoozer."  How about "Schmoller, Schmoozer & Mueller — Attorneys at Law."</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>