<html> At 05:52 PM 3/3/2003 -0600, you wrote: <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite><blockquote type=cite class=cite cite><blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>Okay, now here's that other list. I'll start: 1. Lester "Betsy Ross" 2. Any piano with the word "Winter" in the name 3. Most church "basement" or rec-room pianos 4. PA Stark and similar 60's spinets 5. Gulbransen spinets/consoles 6. Pianos that have been underwater more than 6 decades 7. Any piano with bass string diameters exceeding, say, 1/2 inch <G> Alan Barnard</blockquote> 8.  Brambach 9.  Kranich & Bach 10. Story & Clark school consoles ('60s/'70s) extra credit - any alleged grand under 5', but especially "La Petite". Conrad Hoffsommer PTG RPT, MPT, CCT</blockquote> 11. Poole 12 Grand 13 Whitney Any of the last-gasp Aeolian products, most especially the "players" Extra credit - "But all the keys work" Ron N </blockquote>Jesse French Conn Lowrey Marantz Janssen Uh....yeah. Glad you added "Grand"..... and you came reeeaaal close with Whitney. Should I be the one to add "Kimball"  (I know, Conrad said La Petite), but.... I'll go ahead and put the whole product line in the bottom ten. Maybe... at the top, but.... remember...... "Average" is just "best of the worst, and worst of the best". Right? Oh well, best to think about the top ten, eh? Guy <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite>_______________________________________________ pianotech list info: <a href="https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives" eudora="autourl">https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives</a> </blockquote> <x-sigsep></x-sigsep> "They all laughed at Albert Einstein. They all laughed at Columbus. Unfortunately, they also all laughed at Bozo the Clown."  ~Carl Sagan        Broca's Brain</html>