<HTML>In a message dated 12/6/01 7:28:56 AM Central Standard Time, kswafford@earthlink.net writes: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">If the Piano 300 exhibit at the Smithsonian showed anything, it was that there is interest among the general public in pianos. A piano calendar might be of general interest, but would be difficult to produce I suspect, because of the difficulty of collecting high quality photographs of interesting pianos. Such a project would likely be beyond what the PTG could pull off unless we could obtain the rights to an existing collection of photos. A calendar project would be very expensive because the inventory would have a much, much shorter life than our other products, that is, a 2002 calendar would not be worth anything to us in 2003. Kent Swafford </BLOCKQUOTE> The piano pictures would not necessarily have to be of interesting or unique pianos. They could be of ordinary, every day pianos. With that in mind, would manufacturers be willing to contribute a high quality photo of their instrument? If each calendar had a 12 - 14 different brands in them, not one of the manufacturers would benefit more than an other. The PTG could sell these, not just to members, but to book stores, etc., with the profits going to the Foundation. Just a thought Wim </HTML>