<HTML style="FONT-SIZE: x-small; FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif"><HEAD> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2668" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV> <DIV>Verisimilitude? Ain't that a bit of grandiloquent fustian? But it is a good idea for Joe—kind of like launching a weathercock rockoon, I'd say, throwing the idea out on the stoop to see if the cat licks it up.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> <DIV>Alan Barnard</DIV> <DIV>Salem, Missouri</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Why did the rubber chicken cross the road? Just to stretch his legs...</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=davidskolnik@optonline.net href="mailto:davidskolnik@optonline.net">David Skolnik</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To: </B><A title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech</A></DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> 07/29/2005 2:06:53 PM </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: Pierce Piano Atlas</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV><FONT size=2>Hey Joe -<BR>Instead of getting angry, why not make money??  Why not publish your updates?  For a reasonable price, who wouldn't want to be on the cutting edge of historical verisimilitude?<BR><BR>David Skolnik<BR><BR><BR>At 08:28 AM 7/29/2005 -0700, you wrote:<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE class=cite cite="" type="cite"><FONT face=arial size=2>Alan asked: "</FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman, Times">Is the 10th Edition the last and latest? Is anyone compiling or researching old information and adding new?</FONT><FONT face=arial size=2>"<BR></FONT> <BR><FONT face=arial size=2>Alan,<BR>For years, I've been forwarding "varifiable" information to Pierce and none of it hit the printed page. It's probably lost in some filing cabinet at his Son's house, (who now oversees the publishing, etc.) <BR>Every time I find something that is "verifiable" I write it in the current Atlas. I have ALL of my olde ones, so all of that data is accessable.<G> <BR>I just wish that his Son would get with the program, a bit. There is, I suspect, a lot of info that would be of immense help, in his files.<BR>The one thing that did get changed, which is WRONG, is the serial numbers for Knabe 9 footers. Somehow Randy Potter convinced Piece to change that. It is Wrong, Wrong, Wrong. If you have to date these beasts, you need to consult one of the olde Atlases, it gives a hint, but that's all. Grrrr!<BR><BR>Joe Garrett, R.P.T.<BR>Captain, Tool Police<BR>Squares R I</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>