<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1106" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: = Verdana" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=rol= e_document face=Verdana color=#000000 size=3> <DIV> <DIV>In a message dated 3/16/05 7:39:26 AM Pacific Standard Time, dempsey@marshall.edu writes:</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>I am seeing a private client early next week who has a small new<BR>Hallet-Davi= s Grand. Do any of you know of these pianos, where are they<BR>manufactured,= by whom, etc. What's the skinny?? </FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV>I have a few smaller grands that I work on.  They are not too bad = for the price.  They are Chinese, and I think they're made by Dongbei, thou= gh I think it depends on the year.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>The thing I find annoying is the amount of action noise.  It seems= that they use denser felt on all the regulation buttons and backrail cloth, = and the knuckles are kinda hard.  I wouldn't want a knuckle sandwich made o= ut of them....:-}</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Dave Stahl</DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>