---------------------- multipart/mixed attachment Barrie, This IS sad news. Still, with your vast wealth why don't you=20 simply buy them out and produce these pianos yourself? Just kidding. It's a= =20 shame, really! Are the conditions over there similar to American schools=20 where anything athletic gets fully funded while music departments go hungry= =20 more often than not? To what do you attribute this companies demise? Greg Newell At 08:54 AM 4/10/2003, you wrote: >Sad but > >The British Piano Manufacturing Co Ltd went bust on Monday 7th April >2003 >Production of Bentley, Broadwood, Knight, Welmar, and Woodchester pianos >stopped the workforce where told to get their tools and go by the men >form the bank. > >Production of Broadwood uprights may go to Kembles the last of the big >piano manufactures left in the UK > >Regards > > >Barrie, >-- >Barrie Heaton PGP key on request http://www.a440.co.uk/ >AcryliKey Ivory Repair System UK =A9 = http://www.acrylikey.co.uk/ >The U.K. Piano Page =A9 http://www.uk-piano.org/ > Home to the UK Piano Industry >_______________________________________________ >pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives Greg Newell mailto:gnewell@ameritech.net=20 ---------------------- multipart/mixed attachment--
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