<!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> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr 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=rbrekne@broadpark.no = href="mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no">Richard Brekne</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> September 25, 2001 12:31 = PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: 1 string, 2 = strings, 3 strings or more</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV>  <P>I was going to get into this myself on the spinoff thread you have = about Prambergers, but I have not run into a Pramy YC yet. But my experience = with previous YC and Samicks has been that they up and die really early. = I've seen many as 10 to 15 years old that just dont have any "Klang" left... I = mean nothing at all... just a weird sort of thudish sound. <HR> </P></BLOCKQUOTE> <P dir=ltr><FONT color=#000080></FONT>  <P dir=ltr><FONT color=#000080>One of my reasons for bringing up the = S&S style Y-Cs. They seem to have most of the basic elements there for both longevity and rewhateverability. Time will tell, but I sure am = curious.</FONT> <P dir=ltr><FONT color=#000080>Del</FONT></P></BODY></HTML>