<!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 6.00.2800.1264" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello all</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have just finished reading this book = (see <A href="http://www.picador.com">www.picador.com</A>) . Set in Burma = around the 1870s about the Anglo/Burmese wars and the Shan Uprising. Also about an = Erard Grand and one Edgar Drake, piano tuner extraordinaire. When I got to the = end in the acknowledgements I found: "Two piano tuners helped to train Edgar = Drake: David Skolnik and Ben Treuhaft. Since Edgar Drake is a fictitious = character does the same apply to David and Ben?  I wonder!  Good book, = though, and worth reading.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Michael G = (UK)</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>