As I mentioned in another section, some people will do almost anything to make money. If during your search for an instrument, someone should contact you "out of the blue", meaning someone you have not contacted first, offering purchasing advice, instruments for sale, or making negative comments about the product of other makers or dealers, please contact me and let me know. If negative comments are made about Burgess instruments, I'd be happy to discuss any concerns you might have, no matter how strange, and provide you with stellar references.

How could they possibly know you're looking for an instrument? Most forms of electronic communication are not very secure. One of the simplest ways is to take information from someone's computer with what is broadly called "spyware". Spyware can be installed in your computer (or mine) without either of us knowing it. It can report back on where you browse, who you email; it can even be set up to send a report only if you use certain selected phrases, like "buy a violin". It can be in the computer of a maker or dealer who you contact, and report back to another maker or dealer. Are you skeptical? Here's a link to a site that offers a user friendly, commercial version of such software. The best stuff is probably illegal and kept private.

According to this next site with an article from the Christian Science Monitor, as many as 95 percent of computers could be infected with some kind of spyware.

This is just the tip of the iceberg. There are many other ways to get information from everything from phones to wireless PDAs to the tracking systems used by shippers.

Again, if anything strange happens during your search for an instrument, please contact me. Together, maybe we can help keep things on the right track.

For more information about Burgess violins, violas and cellos, contact David Burgess at:
1510 Glen Leven; Ann Arbor, MI 48103 U.S.A.
Phone: (734) 668-7803
Burgess Violin Maker Main Web Site: http://www.burgessviolins.com

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