<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" = http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2614.3500" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV>Hi Sy,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>You wrote,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: = 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV><FONT size=2>Another Music Trades article in March 2001 talks = about the proliferation of new piano names at the NAMM Show. The article then = states that sales figures for this year were unlikely to break 100,000 units. = Sales in 1976 were 246,000. Now wonder Kimball, Wurlitzer and others are no = longer with us.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Sy Zabrocki</FONT> </DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV>Are you refering to sales in USA or sales WWW.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Seems that when sales fall of in one country, they increase in = another. Kimball, Wurlitzer and etc lost out because they didn't make good pianos = at a reasonable price.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Tony Caught ICPTG<BR>Australia<BR><A href="mailto:caute@optusnet.com.au">caute@optusnet.com.au</A></DIV></BO= DY></HTML>