<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML xmlns:st1 = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" xmlns:o = = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1106" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: = Verdana" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=rol= e_document face=Verdana color=#000000 size=3> <DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 6/28/05 3:58:17 PM Pacific Daylight Time, dporritt@mail.smu.edu writes:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><= FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face="Times New Roman" color=#= 000000 size=3> <P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">A lady called me and asked about the relative me= rits of Falconi and <st1:place w:st="on">Pearl River</st1:place> pianos in th= e same price range.  I’ve not worked on either of these pianos.&nbsp= ; Does anyone have any input on this?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></FONT></P> <P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Thanks!</SPAN></FONT></P></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></D= IV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV>David,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>My experience with Pearl Rivers has been overall on the positive side, given the prices they sell for.  Some of them are among the most stable= pianos I tune.  </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I've also run into some that have regulation problems because the moist= ure content in the balance rail is unstable.  </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I can't offer any Falcone (sp.?) input.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Dave Stahl</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>