<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1400" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>My story.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I had that old 1870 Bechstein model II, = straight strung, and as such being of interest for Jos van Immerseel (you must = imagine the most prominent period piano player and orchestra conducter in = Belgium, with Philip Herreweghe.  Sorry if it doesn't mean anything to american people.  Say it is the equivalent here of Paul Badura-Skoda there).</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>He sees the piano, and immediately = falls in love with it.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>He then crawls under the piano, to = see if there is a serial number or something like that.  He sees = something, asks for his flashlight, and says : "yesss ! here ! an inscription ! Wait, I = read ..."</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>And he reads : "Maria ... was ... = conceived ..... .... im .. ma .. culate."</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Stéphane = Collin.</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>