<!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 5.50.4522.1800" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV>Walter grands are awesome. Only other piano I have = heard with a singing top octave like the Walter is a Fazioli.</DIV> <DIV> <SPAN id=__#Ath#SignaturePos__></SPAN> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = BORDER-LEFT: #000000 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=ramsey@extremezone.com = href="mailto:ramsey@extremezone.com">Kevin E. Ramsey</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> Friday, May 25, 2001 1:56 = PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Walter</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>    Bill Bremmer wrote;</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>"<FONT size=3>To echo Tom D's = remarks, I'd much rather have spent yesterday the way I did <BR>rather than experience = the nightmare and disappointment that Dave R. talked <BR>about. =  Along with the Walter console and Steinway M I tuned, I think I made <BR>more = money than I would have at a concert hall anyway."</FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>    So, Bill, what's = your opinion on the Walters? I find that they are really pretty impressive little = consoles. I haven't seen any of their grands yet, but I here that they're pretty = nice too.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>    As an aside; = yesterday I went out for a tuning on a new Steinway B.        Brand new, twenty two = cents flat, no big deal. Pitch raised it, fine tuned it. Then I asked the owner, a = nice Korean lady, if she would like to try the piano out before I left. = Turns out she's basically a beginner. I told her that if she ever wanted to = up-grade to a better piano, she wouldn't be able to. Must be great to start out at = the top of the food chain. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Kevin E. Ramsey<BR><A href="mailto:ramsey@extremezone.com">ramsey@extremezone.com</A> </FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>