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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=mwissner@earthlink.net =
href="mailto:mwissner@earthlink.net">Mark
Wisner</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> September 17, 2001 12:00 =
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Voicing & =
voices</DIV>
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<DIV>"If new manufactured pianos want to keep up with the private =
rebuilder
they should offer a special line of Well voiced pianos. There is =
market for it
and it's quite large Mark."</DIV>
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<DIV>I agree. For that market, Yamaha makes the S6 & S4
grands. It's a warmer sounding piano. For every "S" piano =
we sell,
we sell about a gazillion of the more aggressive (?) sounding "G" and =
"C"
types. As I write this I hear a great, booming voice =
proclaiming
"The Market Has Spoken"! But hey! That's only ONE of the =
voices I
periodically hear, some of them are frequently mistaken, and =
maybe this
one is too.
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size=3>Actually, I think I
said, "the market is speaking," not that it "has spoken," as in "this
conversation is over." If I'm not mistaken the S6 and S4 grands are some =
more
expensive than the G and C types. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face="Lucida Sans" color=#000080 size=3>And, =
unless I'm
mistaken again, that gazillion is a smaller gazillion than it =
was,
say, ten years ago. </FONT></DIV>
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size=3>No, I think the
conversation is still going on. It will be over when the world's last =
major
piano manufacturer closes its doors. Thirty years ago this would have =
been
unthinkable; it is no longer unthinkable.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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size=3>Del</FONT></DIV>
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