<HTML style="FONT-SIZE: x-small; FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif"><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2722" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7> <DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif">I wonder, seriously, what Steinway's advertising and legal departments would do if word got out, effectively, that there were re-engineered, re-built, improved, souped-up, Steinway pianos on the market.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif">Reminds me of what someone said about some big corporation that was slowly failing, GM I think, to whit: "It's like a dinasaur, it may be dying but it's big, it's bleeding, it's enraged, it's still stumbling along -- and, trust me on this, you DON'T want to get in it's way."</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif">Steinway will be who they are, doing what they are, and having the success they are ... as long as the public believes the myth behind the magic. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif"></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="MS Sans Serif">I'm surprised the 1959 models didn't come out with big fins in the back.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> <DIV>Alan Barnard</DIV> <DIV>Salem, Missouri</DIV> <DIV> </DIV></DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=Erwinspiano@aol.com href="mailto:Erwinspiano@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> 10/06/2005 7:11:13 PM </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: The Nossaman Steinway (was rebuilders..)</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><FONT size=2><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV> <DIV> <FONT size=3>Ric</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3>    Ok throw out better, but how bout I enjoy the musical expression of this  Custom Restored beauty over the other.  Perhaps an A- B comparison of your favorite music played on a really good stock D Stwy piano  sitting next to a Nossaman , Fandrich , Overs, Erwin  or whoever re-designed it , Stwy D, would allow for a fair but subjective comparison. Better is just an opinion after all but it should be based on features, quality of construction & most of all performance enhancement of the whole Beast. Custom stuff usually takes a product out of the realm of hype & into the  realm of folks who are willing to prove it at the starting gate. They don't race horses/cars/boats etc for nothing </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3>  Know what I mean?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3>  Dale Erwin</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>As for whether its a better piano or not... now there is a question that <BR>*_I_ *don't understand. :)... but then you know that.<BR><BR>Cheers<BR>RicB<BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></FONT></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>