<!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 6.00.2900.2722" 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> <DIV>Stephen,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Definitely 2A.  And as Doug Knabe said,  "2. "Baby Grand" has= a very sexy connotation."</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I don't know why people like saying that, but they do.  Billy Joel= and Ray Charles even did a duet called "My Baby Grand," or something like it.&nb= sp; </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Back when I was moving pianos full time, I was asked to come and move a= lady's "baby grand."  Turned out it was a Boesendorfer Imperial (9' 6").  People just automatically pair up the two words "baby" and "grand."</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Dave Stahl</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>People In a message dated 9/29/2005 7:10:55 PM Pacific Standard Time, sbirkett@real.uwaterloo.ca 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>Two obvious reasons:<BR><BR>    1. cheaper<BR>    2. more suited to domestic conditions because<BR>        (a) smaller footprint and/or<BR>        (b) not as loud<BR><BR>but it's not clear which of these is the driver, and whether <BR>different reasons apply to different classes of consumer.<BR><BR>I'll = pose a hypothetical question and short circuit reason #1: <BR>suppose all grand= s of a particular famous make sold for the same <BR>amount. Would you expect re= ason #2 to still drive consumers to the <BR>smaller grands, and if so is it (a)= and (b) that kicks in? or would <BR>you expect most consumers to go for the bi= g grands and somehow make <BR>them work in their domestic circumstances?<BR><BR>Stephen<BR>-- </FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV> <DIV></DIV> <DIV> </DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>