<!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 6.00.2900.2523" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: = Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=rol= e_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV><FONT size=3> HI John</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3>   I'll strongly remonstrate & take issue = here. Based on expereince I find some of The best ones are the fastidiously custom one off rebuilt instruments from the shops of  the technical community. Hey the reason I'm doing this is because of the sounds of all the= new instruments out there called Fortes. That's what  my Dad calls em.</FONT></DIV> <DIV>  Dale</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><= FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size= =2>Hey André,<BR><BR>I thought this question was just for Stéphane, but I see= other people <BR>are replying so I'll add to it.<BR><BR>I personally prefer olde= r pianos in good shape to newer pianos. I have <BR>played plenty of older pi= anos which sound worse than new ones, <STRONG>but I've <BR>never played a new p= iano which sounds better than the best old ones</STRONG> <BR>I've played. Thoug= h it'd just depend on the state of either of the D's <BR>- <STRONG>if I had = to choose without seeing, the newer D is a safer bet.</STRONG></FONT></BLOCKQ= UOTE> <DIV>  <STRONG><U> Nahhhhhhh</U></STRONG></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid"><= FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" face=Arial color=#000000 size=2><STRONG><BR><BR></STRONG>- John<BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>