<HTML><BODY STYLE="background-color:#FFFFFF;font:10pt verdana; border:n=
one;"><DIV>Wim, </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I wish I tuned half that ma=
ny in a week....</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Richard,<=
/DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>The price of gas has been going up for over =
a year now and the economy has been slowing for about the same amount of =
time. History has shown that tax cuts will stimulate the ecomo=
my and it is just common sense that if people have more money in their po=
ckets they will spend it. In addition, if you are overcharged at th=
e store it is right and prudent to expect your money back. If the g=
overnment has a huge surplus of our cash, they should give it back.</DIV>=
<DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Grin...you should really get informed before you =
let your political bias allow you to slam your former countrymen...grin.<=
/DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Mitch Ruth</DIV> <DIV>DeMossville, KY</DIV> =
<DIV> </DIV> <DIV>PS Gas prices are related to the definite lack of =
energy policy in the US for the past 10 years.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <D=
IV><BR> </DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #00=
0000 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; P=
ADDING-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt Arial">----- Original Messag=
e -----</DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt Arial; FONT-C=
OLOR: black"><B>From:</B> Richard Brekne</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 1=
0pt Arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, May 07, 2001 4:35 PM</DIV> <DIV styl=
e="FONT: 10pt Arial"><B>To:</B> pianotech@ptg.org</DIV> <DIV style=
="FONT: 10pt Arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: no tunings</DIV> <DIV><BR>=
</DIV><!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">Grin.=
.. well hey.. you all just HAAADDDDD to elect an ultra conservative for a=
president... who just HAAAAADDDD to start right off dinking around with =
a sizzling economy in the name of some absurd idea that somebody over the=
re needed a tax cut...... sorry... but ya'll got no ones to blames but ye=
rselfs... grin... <BR> <BR> <P>Patrick C Poulson wrote: <BL=
OCKQUOTE TYPE="CITE"> <STYLE></STYLE> <FONT face=Arial><FONT size=-=
1>Wim: I have experienced a slow down for several months now. Definitely =
slower than last year. People are not rescheduling as quickly as be=
fore, and the phone is a lot quieter. I think the whole economy is =
slowing down, and energy prices here in California have got a lot of us w=
orried. Patrick</FONT></FONT> <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #000000 =
2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDIN=
G-RIGHT: 0px"> </BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE> <P>-- <BR>Richard Brekne <=
BR>RPT, N.P.T.F. <BR>Bergen, Norway <BR><A href="mailto:rbrekne@broadpa=
rk.no">mailto:rbrekne@broadpark.no</A> <BR> <DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOT=
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