<HTML>.             Oh come on Del, Gettin just a might picky aren't ya. Best laugh I had all week               Dale Erwin <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">> One of the pianos on my schedule today was described over the phone when > the appointment was made as a rebuilt Steinway. Is I was driving out, > knowing no more about it than it's being "rebuilt", I went over the mental > checklist of what I expected to find - and not find. I wasn't disappointed, > which disappointed me... again. > > snip--snip--snip > > So now there sits a truly lousy sounding and playing piano of vastly > greater potential than was realized by the standard dealer rebuild I've > come to know and expect in this part of the world. > > more snip--snip--snip Wimps! You're all wimps! Can't take a little 'cosmetic rebuilding' in stride? Slows you down? Upsets your day? Dampens your spirits? Find it all a little discouraging? Well, I'll show you what real rebuilding is all about! The owner--a piano teacher new to the area--called to have her piano tuned. It also had been rebuilt and that not long before she moved to our area (at the time Portland, Oregon). No, there wasn't anything unusual we should know about--she'd had the piano checked over by the rebuilder doing the work just before she moved. A rebuilder who has (Had? I can only hope!) a truly individual and unique perspective on his life's work. To illustrate his concept more graphically than words could convey I offer these few pictures of the action--see the attached.... Regards, (And hang in there! It's a rough world, folks!) Del </BLOCKQUOTE> </HTML>