<HTML><BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff">Hello list, and Mr. Mannino in partic= ular, One of the stores I do some contract work for had a concert this past Fr= iday.  The store manager asked me to get a Kawai RX 6 ready for the con= cert with the time I had allotted for store work. I spent about 4 hours + pitch raising, tuning, lubing knuckles, and keyp= ins, and doing a minor regulation.  I thought it played and sounded pur= ty danged good when I was done. Granted, nothing had probably been done to i= t regarding regulation in the two years since it had been uncrated. So I called the store the next day to find out how things went and how t= he piano performed.  Turns out, a 7 foot Shigeru had been brought in fo= r the event, and with it came one of the elusive Shigeru techs who spent som= e hours on the piano, then spent a few more on the RX 6 I'd just worked on. =  Hopefully, I did a decent job of roughing it in for him....:-) So my point here is, I'd like to see one of these techs work, and find o= ut why they are so highly regarded.  Don, if at all possible, it would = be really nice to have a heads-up when something like this is going to happe= n, so I can block out the time to come and garner a bit of knowledge and wis= dom.  It would be very valuable to me, as well as all of the customers = of Kawai pianos--and there are many--that I service regularly. Thanks in advance, Dave Stahl</HTML>